Example sentences of "used [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These will be used to stimulate discussion of the opportunities and problems which face tourism in Wales , and to provide a focus for debating different policy options . ’ |
| 2 | If the supports provided for in the Directive are used to stimulate intensification of agricultural production ( as is the case in the UK ) , losses of features of both landscape and nature conservation value are inevitable . |
| 3 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 4 | It is argued that the lobby is used to channel dis-information to a gullible public . |
| 5 | The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries . |
| 6 | Okun ( 1975 ) characterized this sort of trade-off as a ‘ leaky bucket ’ , which lost some of its contents ( disincentive effects and administration costs ) when used to carry income from the rich to the poor . |
| 7 | It may be used to acquire control of a target company as an alternative to a takeover offer . |
| 8 | The machine is used to gather information on personal performance . |
| 9 | This is a far from ideal measure but it can be used to compare performance over time and to establish target rates of return . |
| 10 | A χ 2 test was used to compare percentage of children with and without HAPCs in the different groups of patients . |
| 11 | Comprising a fleet of canoes and a display stand , it can be used to promote canoeing throughout Wales . |
| 12 | The seminars will include an element of skills training , particularly writing and broadcasting , and it is hoped that these skills will also be used to promote awareness in the areas of culture and education , health , and the concerns of women and young people . |
| 13 | Once a unit has been written towards clearly defined aims ( or ‘ intentions ’ in philosopher 's language ) it can be used to promote thought about the relationship between these aims and the behaviour that results in practice . |
| 14 | Television has been used to promote equality between the sexes by showing short features suggesting that sons and daughters should be brought up equally at home and girls not expected to wait on their brothers . |
| 15 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 16 | A similar trick is used to enable connection to NetWare servers . |
| 17 | In principle , the display of antibody fragments on the surface of recombinant retroviral particles could be used to target virus to cells for gene delivery , or to retain the virus in target tissues . |
| 18 | This can then be used to estimate demand for the product in another country for which statistics are not available . |
| 19 | The head of the seventh UN nuclear inspection team which visited Iraq on Oct. 11-22 [ see p. 38548 ] , Demetrios Perricos , announced in Manama , Bahrain , on Nov. 18 that UN inspectors had destroyed most of the equipment known to have been used to enrich uranium for Iraq 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 20 | The authors suggest that the benefits of computer generated protocols might be apparent if the computer was used to monitor progress throughout pregnancy and alert the obstetrician to deviations in management from agreed protocols . |
| 21 | A single TV screen can be used to monitor playback off each machine in turn , or a ‘ picture-in-picture ’ set-up can be used instead . |
| 22 | Chlorine was first used to treat water after the Maidstone epidemic of 1897–8 when hop-pickers contaminated spring water . |
| 23 | Antibiotics have been used to treat acne for over 30 years and are still widely prescribed . |
| 24 | They are used to induce oestrus in goats which have a persistent corpus luteum ( as in a ‘ cloud-burst ’ ) but will be effective in other circumstances . |
| 25 | Knowledge of these can be used to extract information about the identity and health of the plants in it . |
| 26 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 27 | It is these induced voltages which are used to extract energy from the mechanical system and provide electromagnetic damping . |
| 28 | Legal assistance is most commonly used to secure payment of unpaid fees , or payment for a cancelled gig . |
| 29 | Some used to come year after year you know . |
| 30 | Computers are being used to sift information from across the country in an enquiry that involves past and present pupils and staff . |