Example sentences of "[subord] being used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 2 | ‘ Better that than being used , ’ sneered Derek . |
| 3 | The injection is not a conventional vaccine as it treats the infection rather than being used as a preventive measure . |
| 4 | Previously they were withheld while being used as evidence . |
| 5 | British scientists have devised a method of recycling oil which has become contaminated with highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) while being used to cool cores in electrical transformers . |
| 6 | is not strictly a spice but is a basic ingredient for many curries as well as being used extensively for cakes and desserts . |
| 7 | As well as being used for corn grinding , the mill was also used for cider production , and as a maltings , confirmed by the presence of the adjacent oasthouse. , |
| 8 | Pressed flowers have many more uses than one might at first imagine , and as well as being used in their own right , they can also serve as the inspiration for further designs . |
| 9 | As well as being used for casting off , the linker can , as its name implies , be used for joining two pieces of knitting . |
| 10 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 11 | However optimal control techniques can also be used to analyse the dynamic behaviour of economic systems as well as being used as a method for testing the validity of a model . |
| 12 | As well as being used to produce economic forecasts , the model can be used to answer questions on the impact over the whole economy of alternative economic policies . |
| 13 | This database is intended to underpin our taxonomic work , as well as being used in the management of the living plant collection . |
| 14 | It is recognised that assignments and case studies can also be significant aspects of learning and teaching approaches in the modules as well as being used for summative assessment purposes . |
| 15 | Allocated expenditure is that which can be identified as being used for the benefit of a particular country within the EC . |
| 16 | Rotten boroughs were criticized as being used by the ministry to help maintain a majority . |
| 17 | It is also possible , however , to interpret " these " as being used not to indicate spatial proximity , but to highlight the speaker 's empathy with the unfortunate referents of " these who die as cattle " , and , possibly , to elicit a similar attitude in the reader ( Lyons 1977:677 ; Levinson 1983:81 ) . |
| 18 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 19 | In the Asian Small-clawed Otter , one of the smaller species , the claws are reduced in size — this possibly helps the toes to be more sensitive when being used to feel around boulders under water , for molluscs and crustaceans . |
| 20 | The term , when being used to justify the statement that increased quality reduces costs , really refers to reliability of the product and its delivery according to pre-specified attributes ( i.e. order-winning criteria ) . |