Example sentences of "[conj] be used by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit can receive calls , transmit faxes or be used by personal computers to tap into remote data banks — all for $5.50 a minute . |
| 2 | Heavy rains at the beginning of June alleviated the problem only partly , since much of the water evaporates or is used by plants before it can seep through to replenish aquifers . |
| 3 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 4 | Do n't confuse the environment with the wider systems of interest , which , although providing inputs and receiving outputs , exercise control over the system being considered , normally by setting the standards , rules and so on ; additionally , the wider system often provides the resources that are used by the subject system . |
| 5 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 6 | Only by pushing the boundaries of moral judgment to their extremes are you going to get rid of sexism , racism , sizism and classism ( along with all the other buzz-words that are used by pompous morons to build walls around themselves so they can validify their own judgments of other people ) . |
| 7 | Methods that are used by other organisations , which may be worth considering are direct advertising in national press , and production of a recruitment leaflet based on an issue of concern such as the CPRE Road Verges leaflet , and various Greenpeace examples . |
| 8 | A tagset is the selection of grammatical wordclasses that are used by a system . |
| 9 | High-level languages such as FORTRAN ( FORmula TRANslation ) or BASIC that are used by trained programmers ; |
| 10 | Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ? |
| 11 | So being psychologists who ca n't get enough of it , empirical solid data , we tend to erm be a bit dismissive of the methods that were used by the Although these laws tend to describe what th what 's happening , they do n't actually tell you how they 're achieved . |
| 12 | Yeah Now Pomerance , who 's one of the people in the quote , has done a lot of work recently er by that in the last five six years , looking at how we can investigate the , or objectify , the measures that w or the laws that were used by the . |
| 13 | Why ca n't the same methods that were used by the Commonwealth yesterday vis a vis Rhodesia , vis a vis Namibia and vis a vis South Africa , not be applied in respect of the colonial and settlerist situation here . |
| 14 | The Largo Richini , an airy square , leads to a pleasant length , ( but narrow width ) of parkland that is used by early morning paper readers on Sundays , and by students on all days . |
| 15 | The data that is used by sociologists may be ‘ primary ’ or ‘ secondary ’ . |
| 16 | A few fish , however , in both the Amazon and the Congo , have developed a sensing system that is used by no other group of animals . |
| 17 | But there is nothing to argue about here , as the act of quantifying is not intended to be predictive , explanatory or theoretical : it is a methodological tool that is used by those who wish to make accountable statements about the distribution of linguistic forms in real speech communities in cases where this is not evident without quantification . |
| 18 | They are using sonar , but it is a cruder kind of sonar than is used by the smaller bats with which we , in temperate regions , are familiar . |
| 19 | It was a misperception of the parental perspective that was used by the professionals to legitimise the latter 's recommendations . |
| 20 | In his hand is a copy of a drawing that was used by Stoddard 's design studio to create a unique border design for the carpet . |
| 21 | Dr Who 's Tardis , the bath that was used by Madonna , and an alligator that James Bond wrestled with , are just a few of the items included in an auction of film props . |
| 22 | None the less , each Polaris boat carries more fire power than was used by both sides in the 1939-45 war . |
| 23 | It 's another example of Morrissey 's unusual awareness of the trajectories of fame , and the ways in which fans use and are used by stars . |
| 24 | These are the most popular sources of external information and are used by all companies . |
| 25 | The results are then made public and are used by whichever party emerges with the most support from the poll . |
| 26 | ( Note that the letters A , B , D , K , L and × on this chart are unofficial and are used by variable star observers for convenience . |
| 27 | The clothes that are washed belong to and are used by someone , normally the housewife , her husband and children . |
| 28 | Many of these lakes last for decades if not centuries and are used by several generations of beavers . |
| 29 | Often they are viewed by their organizations as technology experts and are used by the organization and individuals for ‘ reality checks ’ . |
| 30 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |