Example sentences of "[being] use by the " in BNC.

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1 A chance observer saw the sling being used by the second and soon the rumour was circulating that Paul Ross had used ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Prodigal Sons ( a later companion route to Deja Vu ) .
2 Far from being used by the producers , it is her insistence that there is no absolute link between salmonella in birds and its presence in eggs that has attracted supporters to her cause .
3 Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC .
4 He decided instead to follow Jordan through the Gabes Gap and mount an attack in the area around Sousse , a harbour being used by the Germans to ship in supplies .
5 Frequently correspondents give two dates to their letters : ‘ 12/22 December 1635 ’ or ‘ 16/29 August 1907 ’ , or indicate the convention being used by the addition of the letters ‘ OS ’ or ‘ NS ’ to the date .
6 However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) .
7 Obviously , those calories which are being flushed away are not being used by the body … which means that the body is having to use more of its own surplus fat to make up for them .
8 Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ?
9 Already being used by the law in the US , the head-to-toe outfit gives that Michelin man effect but is , we 're told , light and flexible at the same time as being resistant to punches , bottles and the occasional kicking .
10 Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class .
11 A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich .
12 These questions concern the information being used by the animal , and the way in which the animal is using it , so the question arises whether artificial intelligence ( AI ) might help us solve them .
13 In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager .
14 In addition , Protek has also signed a UK marketing agreement with Austin , Texas-based Tivoli Systems Inc to supply and support the object-oriented Tivoli Management Framework software , a key component of OSF 's Distributed Management environment , also being used by the likes of Unix System Labs and SunSoft Inc .
15 What appeared to be a grounded satellite was , in fact , part of the equipment being used by the Sports Science Unit from Alsager College in Cheshire .
16 Thus a computer might have four or eight accumulator arrays , and a special processor register ( or field in the PSW ) specifies the particular array being used by the currently running process ( although privileged processes may have Some means of accessing other arrays than their own ) .
17 1 ) , was being used by the fourth century to modernize Thessaly , and especially its towns .
18 In fact the victims were mainly the families of senior military officers and the Ba'ath party officials , and the walkie-talkies were being used by the drivers who took them to the shelter .
19 If the workspace is being used by the designer it can be employed together with the technical file to convey , by written instructions , the necessary constraints and design parameters .
20 Jacqui wondered whether she could be the go-between being used by the Nazis .
21 However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights .
22 Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams .
23 Indeed , the Wolds contract is being used by the Prison Department as the basis of a model régime specification for State-run remand establishments .
24 Some of these were not foreseeable or preventable but they all represent threats to our reputation , and all were reported to the media ( although we managed to stop two of them being used by the media ) .
25 The British Government have a special responsibility in this matter , because British manufacture cluster bombs are being used by the Yugoslav air force , which is de facto a Serbian air force , to attack civilian targets .
26 The proposed new Bangor library site at Castle Street in the town — it 's temporarily being used by the Post Office — has now become available after the relocation of the fire station to the ring road outside the town .
27 The inside of Royston Manor was equally grim : it usually stood empty , being used by the court as a place to rest during royal progresses and then left in the tender care of an old steward and a bustling , aged retainer .
28 Not only does the use of peptic ulcer drugs increase , but the drugs are increasingly being used by the oldest users in the population .
29 Is there any likelihood that that consistency of approach which is being used by the South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Counties , would er could be adap adopted for o by other authorities in the North Yorkshire County .
30 Rotten boroughs were criticized as being used by the ministry to help maintain a majority .
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