Example sentences of "be used [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alcoves on either side are used for the hanging space , and the reduced space in front of the chimneybreast for shelving , either exposed or concealed behind the wardrobe doors . |
| 2 | PURPOSE GROWN TIMBERS from North America , Scandinavia and Italy are used for the wooden kitchen ranges |
| 3 | If the three colours are used for the whole fabric , the length of floats and buildup of these on the wrong side of the work can be a problem . |
| 4 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 5 | It places a great responsibility upon us to ensure that the children of Sunderland are given the very best possible value-for-money meals , while also ensuring that public funds are used to the best effect . |
| 6 | We are used to the traditional emphasis placed in Christian teaching on the transcendence of God , on His detachment from the world which He has created . |
| 7 | We are used to the Labour party believing that it can talk up its support by talking the country down . |
| 8 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 9 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 10 | However , big is not always beautiful , and often having two smaller models which are used at the real point of use in a catering establishment can give greater flexibility and be more cost-effective . |
| 11 | Quantum 's QBENCH replicates the way that disk drives are used in the real world by combining the same portions of random and sequential read-and-write operations that are found in modern Operating System and Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) environments such as Windows . |
| 12 | In practice , the proprietary liquids which are used in the pressure-vacuum impregnation of timber against fungal attack also contain insecticides and effectively identical products are available through builders ' merchants and DIY outlets for brush and spray application on site . |
| 13 | So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place . |
| 14 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 15 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 16 | Although in everyday professional speech the phrase the in-service training of teachers ( INSET ) is often used to denote formal courses operated collectively with groups of teachers , this view of INSET must be perceived as too limited to describe the many practices which are used in the professional development of teachers ( Gordon and Lawton 1978 , Becher and Maclure 1978 ) . |
| 17 | Checklists are used in the pre-start mode , for routine maintenance and for fault-finding . |
| 18 | It should be noted , however , that if markers are used in the heterozygous state , the expected grain count is halved since the other half is expected to overlie the unmarked , and therefore unscored normal homologues . |
| 19 | These terms are used in the retail trade to describe a loss of profit . |
| 20 | If two fibres are used in the same sleeve , the price comes to 20–25p a metre . |
| 21 | Due to the way the data is stored , the dimensioning on the drawing usually creates between two and three times as many entities as are used in the original model . |
| 22 | The same sort of thing happens in the glass , paper and metal industries , where recycled products are used in the original production processing stages . |
| 23 | ( In many Latin languages , the etymological equivalents of these terms are used in the opposite sense ) . |
| 24 | Some are used by the alpine training squads for dry land training . |
| 25 | Printed guides are used by the motivated user who is actively searching for information . |
| 26 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
| 27 | Blake 's researches showed that there are some thirty or so basic messages which are used by the domestic horse , and there are another seventeen phrases that are used occasionally or in special situations , for example , those messages between a mare and her foal , or a stallion and a mare . |
| 28 | The document includes tables of statistics which are used by the medical profession as yardsticks in the area 's public health progression . |
| 29 | a variety of smells are used throughout the National Fishing Heritage Centre . |
| 30 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |