Example sentences of "is use [prep] many " in BNC.

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1 Continuous assessment , which is used at many colleges in the United States , is more conducive to maintaining a short-term aim in the student 's mind .
2 The land is used for many purposes : for housing , factories , rail and roadways , airports , water reservoirs , recreation , amenity , forestry and farming .
3 Food , in our society , is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger .
4 The taunt ‘ What are you , a fag ? ' ’ is used in many ways to encourage certain types of male behaviour and to define the limits of ‘ ‘ acceptable' ’ masculinity . ’
5 Salt ( sodium chloride ) is a flavour enhancer and is used in many recipes , both savoury and sweet .
6 Their success is with a short-haul freight plane called Skyvan , which is used in many remote areas of the world , with the Shorts 330 small airliner , and with parts for export to Boeing and Lockheed in the USA .
7 It is used in many weapon forms ( katas ) , notably in tai chi chuan .
8 To the extent that it is used in many countries as part of the process by which scientists communicate , and through which scientific knowledge grows , it will be treated here as equivalent to the formal .
9 Buttercream is a popular filling and occasional topping for sponge cakes , and is used in many of the fantasy cakes in this book .
10 The manipulation of statutory reserve requirements is another form of credit rationing which is used in many countries .
11 Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene .
12 This profligate recipe for survival is used by many animals of many kinds .
13 Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder .
14 Maternal care is used by many more groups : spiders , crabs , prawns , wasps , frogs , birds , mammals — no one has ever counted them all .
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