Example sentences of "[noun] it be [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | A formal pool often serves a different function from an informal one , for in an appropriate setting it is often used to mirror the garden around it . |
| 2 | In some countries it is still used as a dairy cow , but in Britain it is definitely a beef breed with the advantage of being able to convert grass into meat with great efficiency . |
| 3 | In January it was successfully used in an attack on Clogher RUC station , which caused extensive damage . |
| 4 | In the past it was much used for teapots , milk jugs and other forms of tableware . |
| 5 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , reality intrudes on such constructions , as indicated by the gradual widening of the category ‘ inner city ’ to refer also to ‘ outer estates ’ and then to whole cities , like Bradford ; in some cases it is even used as a code for whole regions of deprivation in conjunction with that other metaphor , the North-South divide . |
| 8 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 9 | Now available on both the Macintosh and the PC it is still used as a benchmark product although certain aspects of its design are coming under attack from other , more recent , products . |
| 10 | Silk is also used as a foundation material ; it is extremely strong , keeps its shape , and can be spun into very fine strands , but because of its cost it is only used when exceptionally fine knotting is required . |
| 11 | So , and dad it 's also used for paint , paper , pottery |
| 12 | It is known that St. Leonard 's Priory had some academic function , for in the fourteenth century it was partly used as a study centre for young monks , possibly preparing them for their degree courses at Oxford . |
| 13 | No doubt it was also used for pasture , either in rotation with arable or when areas were abandoned from arable cultivation . |
| 14 | In Zambia it is widely used to control termites and as a pesticide in maize fields . |
| 15 | In America it is widely used on the telephone system to inform callers of wrongly dialled numbers , engaged or withdrawn services and all the other announcements that would otherwise need constant human attention . |
| 16 | Do not use zinc as a pure chemical with fish ; locked up in the seed it is slowly used and is not present in an overwhelming amount . |
| 17 | In fact it 's probably used more now than it was when it was a school . ’ |
| 18 | As a foundation material it is only used by nomadic and some village weavers . |