Example sentences of "[prep] [be] use in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases the possibility of being used in painful research would be a prospect that they could grasp and would not relish . |
| 2 | Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric , vigorous , healthy constitutions , robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence , then subsides just as suddenly ; a short , sharp course — Not to be used in prolonged , continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the rate of return to be used in present value calculations should derive from some sort of comparison with the private sector . |
| 4 | Both screening and the observation of the child 's visual behaviour will be used as a basis to determine the size of print to be used in individual cases , and will also indicate whether braille and tactile materials will need to be used instead . |
| 5 | Features : include three exposure modes : manual , aperture priority and program which lets you point and shoot ; also has extra bright f/2.0 high resolution lens allowing the camera to be used in low light without a flash . |
| 6 | These refer to those aspects of beliefs , which may not currently be used in explicit argument to justify one 's own position or to criticize counter-positions , but which possess the potential to be used in future argument . |
| 7 | It will contain a program or programs to allow the computer to be used in certain ways . |
| 8 | It includes the Streamware Kernel that enables the networking protocol to be used in proprietary and embedded environments , the firm says . |
| 9 | If such materials are clear in their visual presentation and able to be used in appropriate environmental conditions , the pupils ' task will be that much easier . |
| 10 | They include ‘ speed restraint points ’ ( which appear similar to speed tables or raised crossings ) ; speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders ; speed control islands to interrupt unavoidably long and straight stretches of road where speeds would otherwise be excessive ; and speed control humps , though it is warned that these ‘ ought not to be used in new housing schemes when other speed reducing features would be effective . ’ |
| 11 | This permits subdivisions which are enumerated under one subject in the schedules to be used in other specified parts of the schedules , as instructed . |
| 12 | A rival package of measures , proposed by Coun Peter Jackson , leader of the minority Conservative party , which would have resulted in savings of £352,000 to be used in other ways , was rejected . |
| 13 | The German scientist who around 1906 synthesized novocaine , the first non-addictive narcotic , had intended it to be used in major surgical procedures like amputation . |
| 14 | Initially , this modification involved simultaneous comparison of the weights of identical columns of water with and without sediment ( Woods Hole Rapid Sediment Analyser : Zeigler , Whitney & hayes , 1960 ) , but improvements in transducer technology have since enabled the devices to be used in single tubes . |
| 15 | In the West the closed fist is considered almost the only effective weapon to be used in unarmed combat . |
| 16 | In general , the courts are reluctant to allow the doctrine to be used in medical negligence cases unless there is a clear inference of negligence from the known facts . |
| 17 | A State with more than one official language may , if necessary under internal law , declare the language of Letters to be used in specified parts of its territory . |
| 18 | CPM tends to be used in large or complex projects in construction and manufacturing . |
| 19 | Although weight has been increased , the machine is still compact enough to be used in tight corners such as on deep shelving and door frames . |
| 20 | The House rejected , it is submitted quite correctly , an argument that the refusal of the English courts to enforce foreign penal or revenue law precluded the English court from giving the assistance requested ; to provide evidence which is to be used in foreign proceedings , even enforcement proceedings , is not to ‘ enforce ’ the foreign law in England . |
| 21 | Wording of reports and letters to be used in foreign jurisdictions |
| 22 | DEC expects the software to be used in growing applications such as telemarketing and in customer service . |
| 23 | Similarly , within the area of prosodic components most generalisations tend to be very broad and obvious : wider pitch range tends to be used in excited or enthusiastic speaking , slower speed is typical of the speech of someone who is tired or bored , and so on . |
| 24 | These are called private law remedies because they were originally used only in private law but later came to be used in public law . |
| 25 | Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery . |
| 26 | Sometimes objects are perceived merely as alternatives to words , as signs to be used in pseudo-linguistic formal analysis . |
| 27 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 28 | This joint venture with British Nuclear Fuels is already receiving orders for the fuel to be used in thermal reactors . ’ |
| 29 | In addition to fronted , predicated , and identifying themes , other types of marked theme exist in English , but they tend to be much more restricted and more likely to be used in informal language . |
| 30 | The role of generalized person in the infinitive thus allows a deeper understanding of those uses of the infinitive where it is not in syntactic relation with another verb and of the reasons why to is used in certain of these uses but not in others . |