Example sentences of "[noun] are [adv] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 32 P isotopes are widely used in molecular biology laboratories and emit high energy beta particles ( E max = 1.71 MeV ) , reaching 6.1 m in air 1 without significant attenuation 2 . |
| 2 | These nozzles are mainly used on wide bodied aircrafts and marketing of the product is now in hand with significant interest being shown from large airline operators . |
| 3 | Such contracts are widely used in large scale commercial operations and may greatly facilitate commercial activity . |
| 4 | In market research what are called focus groups are sometimes used for initial exploratory discussions on new brands or new packaging under quasi-laboratory conditions . |
| 5 | The chants of Jacques Berthier and others from Taizé are occasionally used in Anglican religious communities , and are becoming an increasingly common ingredient of parish worship . |
| 6 | The above formulae are also used by licensed conveyancers . |
| 7 | Wool , cotton and silk are the main materials , although goat and camel hari are sometimes used by nomadic and village weavers . |
| 8 | However , labels are often used for forward jumps and no variable with that name would exist when it was first encountered . |
| 9 | Research suggests that fringe and Green Belt sites are generally used by local populations for informal recreation , and that facilities are not of a sufficient standard to attract people from far afield . |
| 10 | Linear dynamic models are widely used for economic forecasting and policy analysis . |
| 11 | Resultant regional tensions are often used by other countries to further their own political/economic aims among the LDCs . |
| 12 | Indigenous microorganisms are now used in above-ground batch reactors , but commercial blends are being used to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons . |
| 13 | Paint packages are mostly used with photographic images , and with scans alongside paint effects for creative work with a photographic feel . |
| 14 | Drawing packages are commonly used for graphic design , creative and technical illustration , editing clip-art and so on , and are n't intended to give a photo-realistic finish . |
| 15 | Lotteries and sweepstakes are also used as promotional techniques , particularly by the retail outlets , which use them to attract custom into the store . |
| 16 | Breakaway-type sinkers are only used during rough conditions . |
| 17 | The explanations look beyond what is correct and incorrect in grammatical terms to explore how or where the structures are really used in everyday life . |
| 18 | And biological means of treating pollution are routinely used in modern sewage works , where billions of bacteria — admittedly cosseted in concrete tubs and so protected from the ravages of the natural environment — busily consume waste . |
| 19 | Chemical names of anionics are rarely used in commercial literature but if names are used alkyl benzene sulphate , alkyl aryl sulphonate or dodecyl benzene sulphonate ( DOBS ) will be most commonly encountered . |
| 20 | A combination of data visualisation tools and neural networks are currently used in military , insurance , and retailing sectors to mine information from data . |
| 21 | There is no pictorial tradition in Anatolia , Afghanistan or the Caucasus ( although human and animal figures are often used as subsidiary decorative motifs in Caucasian rugs ) , but some nomadic and tribal groups , especially the Belouch , occasionally produce items with pictorial themes ( pl. 4 ) . |
| 22 | These last terms are widely used as acceptable synonyms for ‘ legal ’ and ‘ illegal ’ respectively . |
| 23 | ( These names are somewhat arbitrary ; different names are often used in political philosophy , and sometimes one of the virtues I distinguish is treated as a case of another . |
| 24 | Qualifications are invariably used alongside other criteria and these usually take priority in recruitment . |
| 25 | Distracting techniques are frequently used with pre-school children either before a problem arises or as a palliative once the problem is occurring , for example pointing to an aeroplane flying in the sky to help the child forget that the ice cream van is parked outside the playground . |
| 26 | Social deixis is thus concerned with the meaning and grammar ( e.g. the problems of honorific concord ) of certain linguistic expressions , while sociolinguistics is also concerned , inter alia , with how these items are actually used in concrete social contexts classified with reference to the parameters of the relevant social system ( Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 27 | Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers , especially in the grocery trade . |
| 28 | These devices are widely used by professional fund managers to gain highly cost-effective exposure to stock markets without having to buy the underlying shares . |
| 29 | Two immiscible liquids are sometimes used as selective solvents for components in a mixture . |
| 30 | Scalloped headings are normally used on short café curtains and are hung below a narrow rod from rings . |