Example sentences of "used in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 2 | Sheep dipping in the UK is no longer to be compulsory , in the light of evidence that the organophosphorous pesticides used in the annual dip may be a health hazard . |
| 3 | It is dual density , but quite different from either the Skywalk or Vibram ones used in the other boots reviewed , the shock absorbing layer being very much thicker and softer . |
| 4 | The number of animals killed to satisfy our taste for meat dwarfs those used in the other main areas of controversy , those of experimentation and hunting . |
| 5 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 6 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 7 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 8 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 9 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 10 | This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 . |
| 11 | The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops . |
| 12 | The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine . |
| 13 | As with NAEP , the science tests exhibit the most imaginative types of questions , although Michael Marland praised those used in the first secondary language survey . |
| 14 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 15 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 16 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 17 | Resources — the reason why discretion is used in the first place may be because of limited resources . |
| 18 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 19 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 20 | This difference probably reflects the variation in questions and methodology used in the two surveys . |
| 21 | Hence the title of this chapter has been changed from the positive word ‘ growth ’ used in the two earlier editions of the book to the more neutral word ‘ history ’ . |
| 22 | But it remains unclear what type of rifle was used in the two most recent murders in Forkhill and Crossmaglen . |
| 23 | The reason for this may largely be the types of road used in the two studies , the roads in the Watts and Quimby study were divided approximately equally between rural and suburban areas and thus provides much greater variations in traffic flow , and hence objective risk , than those used in this study . |
| 24 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 25 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 26 | Finally , the sentence production task used in the present study is an easy way of determining preferences for plural or singular reference patterns . |
| 27 | However , for reasons previously stated these have not been used in the present design . |
| 28 | Erm the erm th this shows Britain 's stockpile of , of uranium this is actually depleted uranium which can be used in the fast reactor but ca n't be used in the present type of er thermal reactors but what you see there is virtually the er all of it , th it 's , it 's erm stored at a place called erm er Capenhurst in , in Cheshire on the Wirral erm and erm there 's a few jars off the edge as you can see but basically that 's er that 's it and what you see there , in energy terms , represents erm the equivalent of our entire coal reserves . |
| 29 | The question whether there was ‘ dishonesty ’ by the prosecution may not be easy for magistrates to determine because it is not clear in what sense that word is used in the present context . |
| 30 | The word ‘ intimidation ’ when used in the present context signifies a threat delivered by A to B whereby A intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) either to his own detriment or to the detriment of C. There are thus two forms of the tort , which will be considered separately , but first two general points must be mentioned . |