Example sentences of "used by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impressive expertise used by the state in reassuring the population was easily undermined : ‘ the long distance perceived between the Dublin-based experts of the NEB who assured the population that they were not at risk and the respected local doctors who spoke out about health hazards of uranium , called the legitimacy of the established authority into question ’ . |
| 2 | An attractive house , used by the State to entertain foreign visitors . |
| 3 | We should not ignore collectivism , however , because it is so often used by the state in Japan to mobilize the support of those who have not benefited as much from the economic miracle , or by company leaders to exhort yet more effort from employees . |
| 4 | On the one hand , age-restrictive social policies have been used by the state both to exclude older workers from the labour force and to legitimate that exclusion through the notion of ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 5 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 6 | Men teachers in particular find the various feminine strategies used by the girls difficult to cope with ; both sexes of teacher deem the boys to ‘ take their punishment better ’ and hence teachers prefer the immediate thrust and counter-thrust of the predictable encounters with boys to the longer drawn out ‘ deviousness ’ of the girls . |
| 7 | It was one of the first buildings used by the public , to be lit by electricity — direct current , 110 volts in parallel . |
| 8 | These early subscription libraries , often in their listed buildings , were not the only ones used by the public . |
| 9 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 10 | His discovery aroused great local interest , explorations followed and an artificial entrance , the one now used by the public , was tunnelled into the limestone to give easier access ; this connected with the original route beyond its initial difficulties . |
| 11 | Unsafe disposal of lighted cigarette ends has been thought to cause many fires involving buildings used by the public , for example the football stadium disaster in Bradford , England in l985 and the King 's Cross Underground station fire in London in 1987 . |
| 12 | ‘ Public place ’ has been held to include a field used by the public on one day only ; a racecourse enclosure where there was a right to exclude people and charge for admission ; and an inn car park . |
| 13 | In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome . |
| 14 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 15 | One of the many functions of local councils is the care and maintenance of local parks and commons etc , used by the public for recreation purposes . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there are various time deposits that earn interest in banks , building societies and the National Savings Bank which are used by the public as an alternative means of holding money that is used for expenditure purposes . |
| 17 | Make certain that the fonts used by the software exactly match those of the output device . |
| 18 | In cases where the souterrain was too large for storage of one village 's produce , it may have been used by the chief of an area as a sort of tithe barn for goods paid to him as tax . |
| 19 | At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns . |
| 20 | Although open lines of communication are important , they should not be used by the superior to command the subordinate in a matter where authority has been delegated to the subordinate . |
| 21 | If more force than is necessary is used by the policeman , that too will take him outside the scope of the duty . |
| 22 | Quarterly bills were thus more widely used by the mid-1950s , even for the relatively poor consumers . |
| 23 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 24 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 25 | Damaging revelations about conditions in mental subnormality hospitals were used by the minister , Richard Crossman , to gain funds to improve conditions in mental hospitals in the late 1960s . |
| 26 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 27 | The question that arises though is if they can bring themselves only within er the er words used by the minister , will they be protected ? |
| 28 | Known bidders for the contract , which will be awarded next January , include British Aerospace , which proposes using Swiss-built FFA Bravos/Wrens ( as used by the BAe Flying College at Prestwick ) , and Oxford Air Training School . |
| 29 | At the outset the willingness of George 's parents to cooperate with the school staff in discussing the home situation and how this might affect George 's behaviour in school was used by the teaching staff as evidence in support of their case that George 's needs could not be met within a mainstream school . |
| 30 | Fish knives were therefore only used by the middle and lower classes , and in this way it was considered non-U . |