Example sentences of "use by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Conventionality takes a role : the term to be retained should be the conventional one , the one used by adults in the speech community , and the term eliminated must be the innovative one introduced ( as a regularization ) by the child . |
| 2 | He had taken a captured Italian Lancia lorry along on the trip , as he had heard that there was a roadhouse at Mersa Brega used by groups of officers for meetings . |
| 3 | In fact the steam is a convenient way of heating the wood without drying it out and the mechanism is exactly the same as that used by hairdressers for curling hair . |
| 4 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 5 | Cobalt blue is a pure blue , lacking the greenish undertone of previous artists ' blues like azurite , Prussian blue and indigo and it is far less expensive than the natural ultramarine , extracted from lapis lazuli , used by artists in earlier centuries . |
| 6 | The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ‘ empty vessels make the most noise ’ . |
| 7 | In the most widely reported incidents of this nature ( i ) a group calling itself " White Wolves " on July 4 claimed responsibility for a bomb attack outside the offices of Vrye Weekblad , a radical Afrikaans newspaper ; ( ii ) a bomb attack during the rush-hour on July 6 injured 27 people at a Johannesburg bus station much used by commuters from the townships ; and ( iii ) NP offices in Bloemfontein were extensively damaged on July 22 by a bomb , the latest in a series of attacks on NP offices . |
| 8 | It is used by neurones in widespread regions of the brain . |
| 9 | The buildings , reconstructed to house the proposed Scottish Assembly , are now used by departments of the Crown Office . |
| 10 | Work Experience should not be used by employers as an opportunity to " try-out " prospective employees . |
| 11 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |
| 12 | A number of illuminating pieces of research have been published recently which look in detail at the way in which qualifications are used by employers in the process of the recruitment of young workers . |
| 13 | In the Richardson case , both parties develop and market computer programs used by pharmacists for the purpose of producing labels for prescriptions and stock control . |
| 14 | Water from the railway-owned Stratford Canal could be used by engines on the branch railway at Edstone . |
| 15 | Prestel is a new kind of information service used by customers in Britain and overseas . |
| 16 | This route is often used by visitors to the caravan site at Six Arches . |
| 17 | They are now regularly used by groups of people involved in Outward Bound activities and school parties . |
| 18 | can be used by groups of teachers or students |
| 19 | The following activities are designed as skill-building and awareness-raising exercises to be used by groups of teachers : |
| 20 | The click noises are high frequency and travel only short distances , so tend to be used by groups in close contact with each other . |
| 21 | These are some of the arguments : first , the Black community is living in a hostile environment , therefore we should not wash our dirty linen in public as this would be used by racists against Black people . |
| 22 | Very short booms are used by experts in strong winds , but in light winds they have very little steering ability . |
| 23 | The rubber liners are of the same material as used by farmers for irrigation lagoons and by local authorities for sailing and boating lakes . |
| 24 | Although there are significant differences within it ( particularly between Tees side and Tyneside ) , it is marked culturally by what is , to outsiders at least , a distinctive single local accent which is used by natives of all classes except the land-owning upper class . |
| 25 | It displays the classic erosional features of limestone areas , and because of the pioneer work of the Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić ( 1865–1927 ) , the Slavonic terminology which he devised is still used by geomorphologists throughout the world to describe limestone scenery . |
| 26 | In other words , communication links must not be used by superiors as a means of reclaiming authority . |
| 27 | Although smiling may be elicited by a range of social and non-social stimuli , it is used by adults as a cue to the child 's emotional state . |
| 28 | Probably for similar reasons , the purr is used by adults in social and sexual contexts . |
| 29 | Alchemists had expressed chemical reactions and recipes in symbolic form , employing for example a sign used by astrologers for the gloomy planet Saturn to express its associated metal , lead . |
| 30 | There we have found not miracles but dedication , hard work , love and — the phrase repeatedly used by parents at the Peto — ‘ a lot of common sense ’ . |