Example sentences of "often used [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rabbit on its ‘ seat ’ , the resting place often used during daylight and the alternative to remaining below ground . |
| 2 | If spots or downlights are bought , they 're often used without benefit of a dimmer switch . |
| 3 | BELOW Stone walls were often used as field boundaries , but when they are no longer maintained and collapse , they can quickly become overgrown with vegetation and hidden from view . |
| 4 | High and low angles are often used as point-of-view shots in which we are seeing the scenes through the eyes of one of the characters . |
| 5 | Stepping motors are often used as output devices for microprocessor-based control systems , e.g. a graphplotter pen may be driven by x- and y-axis stepping motors which are controlled by a microprocessor . |
| 6 | Foam padding , often used on coat hangers , is not ideal . |
| 7 | Calves are small at birth and Luing bulls are often used on lowland dairy herds for easy calving . |
| 8 | Tap washers come in different sizes and different designs ( hemispherical ones , for example , are often used on mains pressure taps ) . |
| 9 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 10 | Panning the camcorder , that is swinging it round through a horizontal arc , is a camera movement often used to excess by amateurs . |
| 11 | ( c ) Accreditation , i.e. proficiency certification often in some way a summary " or measure of achievement on the course of instruction and often used for selection purposes , or to acknowledge success . |
| 12 | Much more exotic architecture was often used for resort stations . |
| 13 | They are often used for painting beams and ornamental metal work . |
| 14 | Rustic timbers are often used for construction but remember that they have a comparatively short life . |
| 15 | Even on a quiet mid-week summer 's day the beach is fringed with people picnicking or sleeping in their cars , while the lake itself is often used for windsurfing or water-skiing . |
| 16 | Single-strand , steel piano wire is often used for car and winch launching . |
| 17 | In 1876 a handsome suite of royal waiting-rooms was erected and often used for luncheon parties when the royal party was on a shoot . |
| 18 | Bib taps ( often used for garden taps ) screw directly into a special fitting , such as a wallplate elbow . |
| 19 | Vector chain coding techniques ( e.g. Freeman , 1961 ) , which code six or eight directions of strokes ( see chapter 2 for more details ) are also often used for pattern recognition . |
| 20 | In the past this metal was often used for tableware and as a base for electroplating . |
| 21 | ( Plasmas are more often used for polymer synthesis and for surface treatments such as metal nitriding ) . |
| 22 | As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience . |
| 23 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 24 | Publishers ' catalogues are often used by university and special librarians . |
| 25 | This method is most often used by market researchers , but is not unknown among sociologists . |
| 26 | That amateurism was both a code of ethics and a system of status was borne out by the fact that ‘ amateur ’ was often used in conjunction with ‘ gentleman ’ . |
| 27 | This therapy is often used in conjunction with others . |
| 28 | Typical oxidants , other than air , include sodium hypochlorite , potassium permanganate , chlorine , chlorine-dioxide and ozone , which are often used in conjunction with absorption techniques , being added in small quantities , to the scrubbing liquid which is usually water . |
| 29 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 30 | In mathematics approximations are very often used in order to give the rough shape of the solution . |