Example sentences of "[adv] used in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plain infinitive ( without to ) is only used in a verbal , never in a nominal function . |
| 2 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 3 | They had a warrant to search St Margaret 's church and the church hall and removed masks normally used in a nativity play , and Mr Mackenzie 's work diary from the previous year with all the religious festivals marked in it . |
| 4 | Since the SADS-L is normally used in a face-to-face interview situation these items are mostly in the form of questions and here the original wording was retained . |
| 5 | In the pattern diagram of appendix 1 , the prelims normally used in a report are displayed on the left of the diagram . |
| 6 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 7 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 8 | This was because many of the IT skills acquired on the Advanced Courses could be effectively used in a variety of business settings , eg programming or systems work . |
| 9 | Sight is also used in a more direct form of communication . |
| 10 | The term ‘ differencing ’ is also used in a quite distinct way from that of acknowledging feudal proximity , and that is to display family connections and descent . |
| 11 | The term " investigation " was also used in a variety of ways , for example , to describe a survey such as " An investigation into traffic flow on the High Street " or " Investigate people 's attitudes to TV " . |
| 12 | The concept of social representations is also used in a particular way , in order to suggest that social representations are only to be found in certain societies . |
| 13 | Researchers were also used in a ‘ mystery shopper ’ exercise to check how branches coped with particular problems and inquiries . |
| 14 | Cement and concrete would be extensively used in a geological repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes . |
| 15 | Armed police went to the hotel shortly before 7am to make the arrests , and sniffer dogs were later used in a search of the premises . |
| 16 | As well as executive use the Falcon 20 was by now used in a wide variety of differing roles . |
| 17 | The questionnaire has been extensively tested for reliability and validity and is now used in a variety of situations from clinical trials to inner city surveys . |
| 18 | It also enables him to produce a version of ‘ what is being talked about ’ , i.e. the topic of conversation , which is much more comprehensive , and certainly of greater analytic interest , than the single word-or-phrase-type title which is often used in a fairly trivial way to characterise ‘ topic ’ in the study of conversation . |
| 19 | It could encompass all members of the double-reed family , from treble to bass ; in addition it was often used in a general sense , simply to indicate an ensemble of woodwind instruments , but not necessarily any specific ones . |
| 20 | The National Child Development Study involving all 17 000 children born in Great Britain during the first week of March , 1958 is an example ; although the initial interest centred on the effects of gestational experience on childhood development the cohort is still intermittently used in a variety of studies . |
| 21 | Which category a given term belongs to , this can be shown by explicating its internal grammar , i.e. by showing how the term in question can be appropriately used in a sentential context . |
| 22 | But the word ‘ empirical ’ is frequently used in a disparaging way by some people . |
| 23 | The reverse punch is most frequently used in a counter-attack . |
| 24 | Again , the word ‘ woman ’ is frequently used in a denigrating way too : |
| 25 | Peptide 5 antisense oligonucleotide was used to synthesize cDNA from F9 EC cell RNA which was then used in a PCR with both peptide 6 and 5 primers . |
| 26 | Data from a questionnaire sent to teachers in the project 's associated schools are then used in a discussion of practical issues relating to the adequacy of resources of time and staffing needed to develop and operate a graduated test scheme . |
| 27 | This sailed for England , was driven by a gale to Jersey , made its way to Mont St Michel , and was then used in a campaign against Count Alan III of Brittany . |
| 28 | If a large sum of Eurodollars is borrowed and then used in a transaction , the recipient of the dollars does not see that they are Eurodollars rather than ‘ domestic ’ US$ . |
| 29 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 30 | But unfortunately , Escherichia coli , the microbe commonly used in a crippled form in genetic engineering processes , is not regarded by the HSE as a ‘ dangerous pathogen ’ . |