Example sentences of "[noun sg] used in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This difference probably reflects the variation in questions and methodology used in the two surveys . |
| 2 | The methodology used in the treatment of results of subsequent investigations therefore includes the following procedure : |
| 3 | This radical treatment ( radical at least in the UK — it has distinct echoes of the accounting used in the old centrally-planned economies of Eastern Europe ) is a result of grafting on depreciation accounting ( and including the depreciation in prices ) to a cash accounting system . |
| 4 | Evidence from Sweden , one of Europe 's biggest paper manufacturing countries , states that the chlorine used in paper bleaching processes results in by-products known as dioxins , some of the most toxic substances known to mankind , which can migrate into food . |
| 5 | Chlorine used in the bleaching process was releasing dioxin into the lakes . |
| 6 | Extrapolating these results to human diets , the lowest calcium concentration used in the present study ( 25 µmol/g ) reflects a daily intake of calcium of about 12.5 mmol ( 500 mg ) which is about 60% of the recommended dietary allowance for calcium . |
| 7 | Lead ingots from Phylakopi , Melos and Aghia Irini , Kea , the three votive lead boats from an Early Cycladic grave on Naxos , the use of lead for small figurines and bracelets as well as for rivets used in mending pots , all go to suggest that the silver used in the Aegean during the third millennium B.C. was derived from galena ores . |
| 8 | Lead ingots argue that the earliest silver used in the Indian subcontinent was derived at least in part from galena ores , notably those abundantly available in Afghanistan . |
| 9 | Any instrument used in language assessments needs to provide reliable measures . |
| 10 | EXECUTIONER 'S AXE USED IN SLAYING , ran the headline in heavy print . |
| 11 | This is the production of EM energy in certain solid crystals when they become compressed and stretched in particular directions ( an effect used in a crystal pick-up of a record player ) . |
| 12 | It is a special effect used in thousands of films and TV dramas — the charges trigger a flash to create a realistic gun shot effect . |
| 13 | Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord . |
| 14 | A reduction of HDL levels may also be caused by hypolipidaemic therapy , in particular probucol , and β-blocking drug therapy used in the treatment of hypertension ( Dodson , 1982a ) . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Modern critics of an attitude theory have often argued , not unconvincingly , that the methods of reasoning used in support of ethical views , or of trying to reach agreement on them by a fair minded exchange of views between reasonable persons , neither need be , nor commonly are , different from those used in factual matters . |
| 16 | ‘ Bluffing ’ is thus an indexical term used in different ways by Easton 's section police . |
| 17 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 18 | … is a term used in the retail trade to describe the loss of profit . |
| 19 | There was a higher proportion of officers and NCO 's in Special Forces than in regular formations ( a term used in this book to distinguish Special Forces from other units ) , particularly in the specialised reconnaissance and raiding parties . |
| 20 | It is not a tuck stitch at all , but the name comes from the same term used in dressmaking , where woven fabric is stitched , or tucked , into ridges that look much like this fabric . |
| 21 | This is the opposite extreme to the views that it is mere " myth " — a term used in varying ways , and notoriously hard to define exactly . |
| 22 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 23 | Some years ago Radio Luxembourg carried out a series of presentations to agencies on the subject of ‘ visual transfer ’ — a term used in the USA for the more or less observable fact that most of the TV audience recognize TV commercials from their soundtracks , and that , therefore , using the TV soundtrack , or something close to it , on radio can greatly enhance the coverage and frequency of a TV campaign . |
| 24 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Informal carers ’ is the term used in official documents to describe close supporting relatives though it is not a good term ‘ informal ’ implies that the task is done by choice in a rather casual fashion , which is rarely the case , and ‘ carer ’ implies an embracing emotional commitment which may be wholly inaccurate . |
| 26 | A term used in notional English syllabuses to categorise concepts , eg abuse , comparison , distance , motion , solicitude , termination , urge , value , weight , wish . |
| 27 | As a rule , a term used in contrast to " semantically " ie practising the form rather than the meaning . |
| 28 | A term used in class structure grammar . |
| 29 | A term used in psychology , meaning the form which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole . |
| 30 | A psychological term referring to appetite or physical behaviour , concepts which are not mentalistic ; a term used in Tolman 's purposive behaviourism or expectancy theory ( Rivers 1964 ) . |