Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] used " in BNC.

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31 The top copy is sent to the client ; other copies are used in the reservation office , for the allocating of rooms , charting the reservation , compiling the arrivals and departures lists and alphabetical guest list and providing information for other departments .
32 No historian , for instance , would study the economy of a modern society by an examination of its coins ( or banknotes ) ; even questions about the way coins are used are usually better answered from anecdotal evidence .
33 Paper money and copper-nickel coins are used for making payments in most countries but readers will appreciate that most money in advanced economies takes the form of bank deposits which are transferred between parties by means of cheque , giro and other payment mechanisms or techniques .
34 Both clubs are used to Twickenham cup finals and a fine encounter is in prospect .
35 The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population .
36 The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population .
37 All meals are prepared to order , and local meat , fish and fresh vegetables are used .
38 CASE projects are used wherever possible .
39 We can describe the situation as stable in that neither player would gain from a unilateral change of strategy or , more graphically , that provided randomised strategies are used , pessimism is justified in ZSGs .
40 The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) .
41 The differences between the Spanish and British cases are used to highlight these processes .
42 The same set of cell activities are used again and again — contraction , movement , change in adhesion — and what makes organs different is how these activities are organized in space and time .
43 These same activities are used whatever the setting — home , clinic or hospital — and communicating is even more important ( if that is possible ) when a child is involved , or a mentally handicapped person , or when the contact is made for psychiatric problems , as Hardcastle ( 1988 ) clearly outlines in ‘ First impressions ’ .
44 What Lord Airlie , the Lord Chamberlain , actually said on 11 February when announcing the areas on which the Queen was now going to pay tax , was that the income-raising activities relating to the collection — sales of tickets , catalogues , souvenirs etc — are to be put into a trust to reflect the fact that these activities are used exclusively to maintain the Collection .
45 All these activities are used to improve the clients ' awareness and in turn hopefully improve their quality of life .
46 Bulls are used as crossing sires in dairy or suckler herds .
47 There is also some double-muscling and , inevitably , some calving problems if ill-chosen bulls are used on dairy or suckler cows , especially heifers .
48 The way in which the definitions are used is as follows .
49 A tenant may not be in a position to determine which definitions are used , but it is a point worth noting .
50 If definitions are used carefully , they can help the drafter produce a more concise document .
51 If point loads are used , one per side , then each side tends to become hyperbolic , its acuity dependent on the elasticity of edges .
52 The convergence properties of the QR algorithm are superior to those of LR , particularly when shifts are used and deflation is performed whenever possible .
53 First , if a number of subtests are used as part of a larger test , the conversion of the subtest scores to a single standard scale will assist in the interpretation of the subscale scores .
54 Piping bags and nozzles are used in virtually every recipe in this book .
55 This will be so no matter how many repeaters are used .
56 In practice energy forms are used together and within the actual cleaning process each form inter-relates .
57 Standard application forms are used by many companies .
58 Whereas most differences are of a sex preferential kind — that is , certain forms are used significantly more by one sex than the other — a number of languages have what are called ‘ sex-exclusive markers ’ : forms that are used only by women , or only by men .
59 Working in pairs the students readily found contexts in which some of the modal forms are used , but not all .
60 Booking forms are used for access face to face .
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