Example sentences of "[noun sg] be used [adj] " in BNC.

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1 While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more .
2 Notice in ( b ) pink was used first and then yellow and finally pale viridian .
3 When other markers of electrical instability are used such as late potentials or programmed ventricular stimulation this relationship still holds .
4 At the other end of the scale , there are industries where excessive cold is used such as refrigeration in the fishing industry , and cold storage rooms in the catering business .
5 Air transport is used much less in the rest of the United Kingdom than in the South East .
6 Acid deposition is not a new problem : for example , the term ‘ acid rain' was used first by Robert Angus Smith in 1872 to describe the polluted air of Manchester , England , which damaged vegetation , bleached the colours of fabrics and corroded metallic surfaces .
7 62.5 million gallons of water are used each day in Lothian
8 The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] .
9 Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out .
10 A very simple independent clause structure is used first : " She swept the room " .
11 When setting up a rack system , the connections are nearly always made from the back , and if a wireless system is used this is fed into the preamp 's rear input , although the front panel input invariably overrides this should you ever require the use of a lead .
12 These are switchable between series and parallel modes , and a master volume/pickup pan system is used this time , again with ±21dB of boost or cut .
13 For the next sequence , Crawford and the Suzuki had to jump into a pond ; a three-foot ramp was used this time .
14 This measure was used twelve times by Raymond Barre ( 1978 to 1981 ) ; ten times under Mauroy and Fabius ( 1981 to 1966 ) ; seven times in 1986 alone ( Chirac ) .
15 Never lets seed be used that 's more than two years out of Scotland . ’
16 Does not the Minister agree that it will be a travesty if the same formula is used this year and my constituents are therefore robbed of much more money that is needed for health in the area ?
17 Extensive use of line drawings , schematic diagrams , algorithmic lists is desirable , and where prose is used this also should be structured into short sentences with meaningful separation into paragraphs .
18 The craft section includes Heaviest Scones ( cement was used last year ) and The Fruit Cake With The Most Fruit At The Bottom .
19 I treated a case in a practical class in our school , each bottle of 80 oz injected had 6 oz of Plastopake 25 index , 6 oz of Metasyn Jaundice fluid , 6 oz of Dispray , 2 oz of Rectifiant water conditioner plus a co-injection fluid of 2 oz — a saline flush was used first ( about 160 oz ) and then injection started .
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