Example sentences of "[be] still used in " in BNC.

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1 It is ethyl acetate and isopropanol , not their systematic equivalents , that are still used in coating or laminating flexible webs for numerous industrial applications .
2 Incidentally , fumigation with aromatic substances to prevent the spread of infectious disease is still used in certain parts of the world , and up until relatively recently , French hospitals burnt juniper , thyme and rosemary in the wards as a disinfectant .
3 It is developed from an eastern world view , and each of the postures adopted is still used in the East to invoke various deities .
4 Silver amalgam is still used in teeth in the rear of the mouth , but even then there are aesthetic considerations favouring the use of tooth-coloured polymer-ceramic composites that are now routinely used to repair front teeth .
5 It would have been parochial of us not to have mentioned it as it is still used in many other countries .
6 However , it is still used in cooking , as a spice and a flavouring , especially the seeds , by the Indians and Egyptians .
7 It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus .
8 The sickle is one of the oldest surviving implements in farming , and is still used in Suffolk — in the Bures district — but for harvesting thyme for seed and not for corn .
9 More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) .
10 To the left of the screen are the major frame tools , one of the better endowments of the Legacy engine which is still used in V1.5 .
11 This question the politics of cancer and is still used in health and educational venues .
12 Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes .
13 The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison , which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers .
14 Although water power was still used in all three mills , supply was sometimes marginal and , despite cutting a new channel at Churchend , before long Hicks had installed steam engines in all three .
15 The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain .
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