Example sentences of "is [adv] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed . |
| 2 | In France , from where the machines originate , double knitting is mostly used for lace . |
| 3 | A basic sense of wonder ( a ) to foster their capacity for imagination which can give rise to vision , realizing that reality can be greater and other than it often seems — so that they appreciate that a flat two-dimensional approach to life is not the only option available ; ( b ) to understand that religious faith expresses itself in a variety of forms , many of which are close to the arts , and to realize also that religious language is mostly used in symbolic or metaphorical ways ; ( c ) to appreciate the emotional power of religious commitment and how this can be beneficial or harmful . |
| 4 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 5 | In America it is widely used on the telephone system to inform callers of wrongly dialled numbers , engaged or withdrawn services and all the other announcements that would otherwise need constant human attention . |
| 6 | Norfolk is a county poor in stone , particularly in the north , where flint is widely used as a building material , with brick dressings . |
| 7 | Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle . |
| 8 | The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale , for example , which is widely used as an IQ test , can be scored to yield a profile of 11 subscales . |
| 9 | SF 6 is widely used as a transformer fluid , but also finds use as a blanketing gas to prevent oxidation and fire in magnesium casting . |
| 10 | The Swastika is widely used as a talisman to counteract possible negative or demonic influences . |
| 11 | It is widely used as a kind of yardstick for good practice . |
| 12 | Although there are standards which provide guidance on the construction of thesauri , until recently there has not been a ‘ standard ’ thesaurus , or even a thesaurus which is widely used as a norm . |
| 13 | Although these models are able to represent more complex situations , to some extent this has been at the cost of reduced elegance and simplicity and only the entity-relationship model of Chen is widely used as a data modelling tool . |
| 14 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 15 | Cassava , sugar cane , fruit crops , coffee and cotton are also grown and irrigation in the Venezuelan region is widely used for grain production . |
| 16 | C.I.P.C. is widely used for sprout inhibition . |
| 17 | The metal is widely used for implements and structural components . |
| 18 | it may be worth trying quinine which is widely used for night cramps . |
| 19 | Although alcohol is widely used for motor fuel nobody has yet extensively developed liquid alcohol as an alternative source of cooking fuel . |
| 20 | This is widely used for steady or mean pressure measurements but can not respond to rapid fluctuations . |
| 21 | The Tarot pack was invented in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and is widely used across the world today in ordinary card games . |
| 22 | Trichlorophon is widely used across Europe for treating fruit and vegetables . |
| 23 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 24 | Acupuncture is widely used in human alternative medicine . |
| 25 | This was developed by the Aldus Corporation and Microsoft particularly for images obtaining from scanning devices , and is widely used in desk top publishing . |
| 26 | It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day . |
| 27 | Statistical sampling is widely used in scientific experiments and market surveys . |
| 28 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 29 | 1989b ) , and is widely used in social work . |
| 30 | Gypsum is widely used in the building trade as ‘ Plaster of Paris ’ . |