Example sentences of "[Wh det] is used [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates .
2 Can you give me any information , including availability and cost , of the Photon guitar synthesiser which is used to great effect by John McLauglin but which I have never seen advertised .
3 Continuous assessment , which is used at many colleges in the United States , is more conducive to maintaining a short-term aim in the student 's mind .
4 This is a word which is used with different meanings in different contexts .
5 More recently , ‘ Synprolam , ’ which is used for cationic surfactants , was developed using feedstocks both from the carbonylation and amines plants to make long-chain fatty amines , which can then be reacted with ethylene oxide in the final manufacturing stage .
6 The modern Letter of Credit ( or Documentary Credit as it is often called ) which is used in international trade can be traced back , at least in part , to the Travellers Letter of Credit .
7 The death instincts provide the negative energy which is used in destructive aggression between human beings , either between individuals or between groups and nations .
8 The Thai medicinal plant Croton sublyratus , which is used in traditional medicine , has recently been found to contain the antiulcer acyclic terpenoid plaunotol ( 17 ) which is similar in structure to gefarnate .
9 The manipulation of statutory reserve requirements is another form of credit rationing which is used in many countries .
10 Perhaps surprisingly , even today most of these metals are still of considerable importance and few ‘ new ’ metals have superseded them except for certain specialised uses ; one metal unknown to the ancients which is used in large quantities today is aluminium .
11 One naturally occurring radioactive metal which is used in nuclear power stations .
12 And carbon present as carbonate which is used in skeletal material or as carbonate or C O two or H C O three minus which are all used as substrates for photosynthesis .
13 A very small board which is used in stronger winds .
14 It should not be confused with the carve gybe which is used in high winds without the centreboard .
15 Some of the materials will be important in electronics : for instance , researchers will work on new manufacturing techniques for gallium arsenide , which is used in highspeed chips .
16 First of all beauty , which is a word which is used by all sorts of philosophers .
17 which is a word which is used by all sorts of philosophers
18 For Chomsky , language is an abstract system of rules which is used by human minds for transmitting and receiving ideas ; the natural focus for research is a description of the rules by which that system is organised .
19 The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats .
20 The plane was due to connect with the hydrofoil service to Malta which is used by British oil workers .
21 But what is used in sub-lingual therapy is industrial alcohol .
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