Example sentences of "be use [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer we are using has a precision of six decimal figures . |
| 2 | The first are designed to present a formidable appearance in front of a crowd ; the second are sent into a crowd to disperse and/or incapacitate people with truncheons ; and the third are used to create a fear and scatter effect . |
| 3 | Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process . |
| 4 | The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types . |
| 5 | Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study . |
| 6 | Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study . |
| 7 | They are used to create a perfect finish on iced cakes , and often have a decorative edge that can be used to imprint patterns on the icing . |
| 8 | When emergency procedures are used to take a child into care , the Social Work Department has to obtain a Place of Safety order signed by a Sheriff or a Justice of the Peace . |
| 9 | Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects . |
| 10 | SPRs are used to report a fault or documentation error relating to a specific issue or module under LIFESPAN control , and to suggest improvements to pieces of software or documentation . |
| 11 | SPRs are used to report a fault or documentation error relating to a specific issue or module under LIFESPAN control , and to suggest improvements to pieces of software or documentation . |
| 12 | Various behaviours are used to induce a loss in weight and in addition to the obvious ones of the avoidance of foot and undereating , including binge eating , self-induced vomiting , laxative use and the use of other drugs ( appetite suppressants and diuretics ) . |
| 13 | To make a choice from any menu , the Arrow keys ( or mouse if you have one ) are used to move a highlight bar to the appropriate place before pressing the ENTER key to select the option . |
| 14 | It also affects loans secured on an older person 's ( 65 years or over ) home which are used to purchase a life annuity . |
| 15 | North Tees and South Tyneside get identical whole body scanners , which are used to diagnose a wide range of injuries and disorders including cancer . |
| 16 | The EC 's limited resources will not deliver results if they are used to give a little to every possible project . |
| 17 | I do not deal with the equally hard problem of the patient who is admitted unconscious to hospital after a suicide attempt , where the doctrines of implied consent or necessity are used to justify a doctor in treating him . |
| 18 | The stories told by respondents are used to justify a particular position , as well as to criticize the characters in the stories . |
| 19 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 20 | Exercise 9–4 Examine the effect of a proportional lifetime income tax , where the proceeds are used to make a uniform payment to all . |
| 21 | Since the pronouns are used to express a human encounter they derive their nature and value from the human beings , and not vice versa . |
| 22 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 23 | The key idea in the unification-based approaches is that informational structures ( known as feature structures ) are used to encode a variety of linguistic information ( lexical , syntactic and semantic ) in a uniform manner . |
| 24 | Often , controlled index terms are used to identify a relatively large set of potentially relevant references , and then string searching ( or natural language searching ) used to identify specific documents from within that set . |
| 25 | None of this need be numerical , sometimes numbers are used to provide a pseudo precision which can be counterproductive because the validity of the numbers can so easily be questioned . |
| 26 | The apparatus consists of a thermostatted chamber , saturated with solvent vapour at the temperature of measurement , and containing two differential matched thermistors which are capable of detecting temperature differences as low as 10 -4 K. Two syringes , one for solvent and one for solution , are used to apply a drop of solution to one thermistor , and a drop of solvent to the other . |
| 27 | Often the quality of the translation may be tested by examining the items indexed under a number of possible terms that might have been used to describe a subject in an index . |
| 28 | The wooden pallet bed is n't needed for rest , and like the rest of the room has been used to mount a display for one of Bremer 's collections . |
| 29 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 30 | The problem with a literal approach is that it has frequently been used to persuade a court that wholly unlikely consequences might arise and that the court should , in the light of those consequences conclude that the restraint is unreasonable . |