Example sentences of "used at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 32 | Such expressions , he argued , can not perform a genuinely naming function , and , ideally , should not be used at all . |
| 33 | Even a fifteen-minute programme will take up a considerable amount of lesson time if it is used at all flexibly , with pauses for discussion and repeat viewings of some sections . |
| 34 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 35 | American women , they learned , did not much care for murky colours but wanted bright yellows and apple greens , vibrant colours which were hardly used at all in Europe . |
| 36 | Reversible fabrics are good where no lining is used at all , making the curtains as attractive from the outside as inside . |
| 37 | By using containers that can be used at all stages , it enables the caterer to optimise the organisation of all storage areas . |
| 38 | Far too many IT systems are reported to be hardly used , or even not used at all , because of their unreliability or irrelevance to the needs of clients . |
| 39 | If any descriptive word is used at all , it is usually " valuer " , and the procedure is called a " valuation " or an " appraisement " , and not " expert determination " or a " reference to an expert " . |
| 40 | For instance , among the 22 Arg residues 19 are coded by AGA , 1 by AGG , CGT and CGC , the codons CGA and CGG being not used at all ; furthermore , triplets ending in A or T are preferred to those ending in C or G. This picture was confirmed when the analysis was extended to the eleven genes from S.solfataricus which have been sequenced so far , whereas the comparison with the codon usage by the corresponding genes in Escherichia coli and rat liver showed a completely different pattern ( 7 ) . |
| 41 | you 're right about that as well , not much used at all . |
| 42 | Some of the holes are not used at all . |
| 43 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 44 | And you mentioned , then , how a floppy disk — that 's a sort of disk storage device — can be used to get a book printed , is this being used at all in practice , or is it just a daydream ? |
| 45 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 46 | Is this being used at all in practice , or is it just a daydream ? |
| 47 | Again , the conditions are very very different in every place , so if you go to Honduras , erm they have 2 million hectares of tropical forest , which is scarcely being used at all to the use of timber , but is being steadily cut down , and turned into , first peasant agriculture , and second , ranching . |
| 48 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 49 | These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors . |
| 50 | There were many routes from Earth to the Reconciled Dominions , some safer than others , but all used at one time or another , and not always by magicians . |
| 51 | Its western counterpart apparently remained open , being used at one stage for spelt cultivation . |
| 52 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 53 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 54 | The carpenter 's benches were well lit by rooflights ; some of the tools used at that time would probably not be found today . |
| 55 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 56 | Inhibitors of glucosidase I ( deocynojirimycin ( DNJ ) ) and mannosidase I ( 1-deoxymannojirimycin ( DMJ ) ) were used at optimum concentrations , as specified for HT-29 cells . |
| 57 | Cotton wool is a material which can be used at such times ; respondents thought of this context when talking about cotton wool . |
| 58 | Example 58 , from Handel 's Messiah , is an early but outstanding example of a powerful accompaniment based on three rhythmic elements : Two elements only are used at first , the ‘ chord ’ rhythm of the upbeat quaver chord at the end of each bar , with its resolution on the first beat of the next bar , and then the higher quaver and semiquaver rhythm . |
| 59 | Extinguishers were used at first but to no avail . |
| 60 | The main tube has to run freely while suspended on the kiteline , so pulleys are used at each of its ends . |