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

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1 The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) .
2 Standard application forms are used by many companies .
3 Group methods are used by large companies and organizations when dealing with applicants for jobs which require considerable organizational and leadership skills .
4 These offices were used by secular clergy and were particularly appropriate for lay use since they remained constant throughout the liturgical year and were not subject to the complex variations of the main office .
5 In each class at least four methods were used by different pupils to work out the answer to this item .
6 It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support .
7 By simply writing to the Mailing Preference Service , you can have your name deleted from almost all the lists being used by direct mail companies .
8 On locomotive-hauled trains , a flashing red light is used by British Rail , while on multiple units a static light is used .
9 Reproduction , as the term is used by Marxist thinkers , refers to the process whereby a given form of society , or social formation , maintains itself — that is to say , is continually re-created — in that form .
10 The harbour is used by local fishermen , yachtsmen , motor boat and rowing enthusiasts .
11 Here , the symbolic value of the wedding ring was used by this teacher to communicate the values associated with marriage and the family that had been discussed by the deputy head in the previous interview .
12 Instead , the sites are used by local residents , of who some 25 per cent or so come by foot and use the sites like an urban park , primarily to take a walk ( Harrison , 1981 ) .
13 More than 100 Challengers are used by disabled clubs up and down the country and their popularity is growing .
14 These planes are used by British Intelligence for covert operations .
15 These will be used to examine the processes of change in companies and within trade unions and to explore the strategies and logics being used by both parties .
16 Although LCC is used by other libraries , in order to understand the format of the scheme it is necessary to recognize that it was intended to fit the LC collections and services as closely as possible , without reference to outside needs and influences .
17 The canal is used by commercial vessels servicing Lake Saimaa 's paper and steel industries .
18 The tax was used by the ancient Greeks ; the levy of 1380 led to Wat Tyler 's rebellion in the Middle Ages ; and the tax was used by southern states in the United States to exclude black people from voting .
19 Obviously the way in which powers are used by different agencies , such as the Inland Revenue , DSS or the police , depend largely to the support they feel they will receive from the media , the Government and the public .
20 These panels are used by individual companies and by specialised agencies , such as A.C. Nielsen .
21 I. Lastly , if use-values which do embody surplus-value are used by unproductive workers they can not be productive of further surplus-value , even though the material form makes them suitable as capital .
22 The message of this popular song is that sounds are used by different people in different ways .
23 Hedging instruments such as swaps , options and financial futures can of course be used by financial institutions to limit risk , but these also contain ( often unknown and unlimited ) risks of their own — witness the losses of Midland Bank in its interest rate risk hedging in 1990 .
24 Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder .
25 One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics .
26 Many carpet and fabric examples are used by interior designers in the London Showroom .
27 Similar cuts were used by Indian lapidaries , at least as early as the seventeenth century .
28 And there were occasions when banter and humour were used by low-ranking officers to convey the impression to the section police that they should go easy on the number of ‘ skulls ’ ( prisoners ) they accrued because of the excessive paperwork it was causing .
29 Mr Sawkins opened up his land to grasstrack riders 16 years ago and a quarter of his 100-acres farm is used by young motorcyclists .
30 The Chiltern line is used by 9,000 people each weekday .
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