Example sentences of "be use [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olympic officials in the United States have warned athletes that a wonder drug they 're using to boost performances , could be lethal . |
| 2 | So they 're used to have thermometers stuck in them an and have the have the bed pan slipped underneath them yeah mhm |
| 3 | Pigs ' heart valves are used to replace valves in human hearts . |
| 4 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 5 | Such grammars are used to define languages , which themselves are necessary for describing other tasks . |
| 6 | Various methods are used to define LDCs . |
| 7 | More common are hollow augers and borers which are used to collect samples of soil and , more often , peat for environmental analysis . |
| 8 | Scores are used to allocate pupils to one of eight streamed classes . |
| 9 | Most of their oil revenues are used to finance imports of consumer and capital goods , the latter being associated with industrial and infrastructure investment . |
| 10 | When staff advisors are used to plan changes the business , they must be kept involved during the implementation , monitoring and review of the project , so that they share responsibility for outcomes . |
| 11 | Similarly there are two commercially available fungi , Verticillium lecanii and Metarhizium anisopliae , which are used to control aphids and whitefly in glasshouse crops , and spittle bugs which are a pest of sugar-cane in Brazil . |
| 12 | When the market is falling , futures are sold , and if the market continues to fall , the position can be unwound by buying in the futures contracts and making profits on them , which are used to offset losses on the value of the share portfolio . |
| 13 | In contrast , cells in V4 respond relatively sluggishly when spectrally pure colours are used to illuminate scenes , especially when the scene looks washed-out to a human observer . |
| 14 | Underlined , bold letters are used to display residues where only one sequence deviates from the consensus . |
| 15 | Basically , girls and women are used to sell things . |
| 16 | Loss leaders ( items sold very cheaply ) are used to draw customers into the shop . |
| 17 | Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document . |
| 18 | ABOVE Many different types of tools and digging techniques are used to excavate sites . |
| 19 | shorter tree guards are used to deter voles from debarking the base of a tree . |
| 20 | helicopters are used to mount operations such as snap roadblocks or to deposit surveillance teams in rural areas |
| 21 | Relevant techniques , methods and technologies are used to enable individuals/groups to apply learning |
| 22 | Terriers sometimes suffer from this same problem when they are used to evict foxes from the same sort of terrain . |
| 23 | a software device where areas of grey are used to simulate lines of text . |
| 24 | It is the shape of the hip bones , rather than other anatomical differences , that are used to classify dinosaurs . |
| 25 | Chapter 7 looks at industrial applications in the energy , mining , shipbuilding , construction and computer industries , where both valuation and technical skills of experts are used to settle issues . |
| 26 | The terms biokarst and phytokarst are used to describe forms attributable in large part to organic processes . |
| 27 | Various terms are used to describe children and young people who are no longer at home , frequently incorrectly and often as though they were interchangeable ( De'Ath , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Programs of this kind such as WORMS and DRAG are used to give pupils practice with addition or multiplication and often incorporate games into them . |
| 29 | The primitives of the representation are the results of earlier processing which are used to access words or phrases . |
| 30 | If the estimates are used to prune paths , the algorithm is no longer guaranteed to find the optimal path , though it may be possible to prove that the probability of doing so approaches 1 . |