Example sentences of "used [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely important , because of the price and resale differences between items from the various countries , to ask specifically whether the name used refers to the rug 's place of origin or its design . |
| 2 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 3 | The average number of labelled cells ( x ) per 50 hemicrypts in the proliferation zone was used to extrapolate to the total crypt size . |
| 4 | It can also specify the password to be used to obtain to the module . |
| 5 | For longer trips , there are travel sickness tablets especially for dogs and even those made for human consumption can be very beneficial if used according to the instructions for dosing a child . |
| 6 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan mentioned a wider range of headhunters , naming Heidrick and Struggles and a number of smaller search firms , used according to the salary level of the appointment . |
| 7 | The set contains two short videos , one audio cassette , five manuals , several leaflets and posters , some or all of which can be used according to the needs of different groups . |
| 8 | When describing the sclerites and regions of the thorax the prefixes pro , meso and meta are used according to the segment to which the reference applies . |
| 9 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 10 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 11 | Before the invention and perfection of valves , horns in all keys were used owing to the narrow range of notes available on the natural horn . |
| 12 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 13 | Sometimes the phrase " celebration of diversity " is used to point to the affective as well as cognitive impact which this approach would like to see in pupils . |
| 14 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 15 | DH numbers used refer to the previously described hypersensitivity sites which are present during all stages of B cell development ( 26 ) . |
| 16 | In this way , the dictionary , being a general-purpose source of knowledge designed for use by non-experts , is being used to contribute to the recognition of text that is both highly specific and intended for a specific audience only . |
| 17 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 18 | In the one sense , the term is used to refer to the ordinary aspects of police work , in the other , it is the process by which police work is done that is described as ‘ routine ’ . |
| 19 | The term proactive interference is used to refer to the fact that prior learning can interfere with the acquisition , retention , or use of new information . |
| 20 | From these definitions you will see that crime and delinquency are one form of deviance ( strictly speaking , delinquency refers to anti-social and illegal behaviour , but in sociology it is usually linked with ‘ juvenile ’ and used to refer to the criminality and misconduct of youths ) . |
| 21 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |
| 22 | But the term has also been used to refer to the work done by anthropologists who have lived with tribes they have studied . |
| 23 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 24 | The term gender will be used to refer to the social construction of sexual differences . |
| 25 | Sentences in the intentional mode ( such as ( 18 ) , ( 19 ) , and ( 20 ) ) express a reason-action relation , and the verb which is used to refer to the result of the action occurs in its non-finite form ( e.g. , go ) . |
| 26 | This contrasts with sentences in the empirical mode which express an action-result relation , and in which a finite verb form ( went ) is used to refer to the result of the action : |
| 27 | The principle of local interpretation however , will guide us to construct a limited context in which ‘ the mother ’ is the mentioned baby 's mother and the expression it is used to refer to the previously mentioned baby . |
| 28 | Johns ( personal communication ) also suggests that in English science and engineering academic abstracts , the present perfect is specifically used to refer to the work of other scientists . |
| 29 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 30 | Since dictionaries also contain information about the orthography ( i.e. spelling ) , phonology ( i.e. pronunciation ) and semantics ( i.e. meaning ) of words , terms such as ‘ mental dictionary ’ , ‘ internal lexicon ’ or ‘ mental lexicon ’ have been used to refer to the internalised system of knowledge we use when we perceive or produce words . |