Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [being] used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torture is still being used to intimidate detainees . |
| 2 | In addition , while it is now offered as an entry program , it is also being used to promote its stable-mate , Corporate Voice . |
| 3 | The cloning of plants using tissue culture is also being used to produce improved crop strains and , as Tudge points out , it has considerable potential for the improvement of oil palms , coconuts and tea , all of which are important economic crops in many developing countries . |
| 4 | Electrochemistry is also being used to probe the electronic structure of the fullerenes ( K. M. Kadish et al , J. Am . |
| 5 | The equipment is also being used to develop three-dimensional re-constructions of pore fabrics in aquifer rocks under the Nirex research and development programme . |
| 6 | Interestingly , much of the psychological research is now being used to argue for an organic cause . |
| 7 | ‘ Surplus stock is now being used to clear any backlogs in the orders , and the circle are working with the legal department to incorporate their solution into a company policy on the problem . ’ |
| 8 | At the other end of the eruption size-scale , time-series analysis of the rates of change of chemical signatures in lavas from continuously erupting volcanoes is now being used to reveal the storage times of magmas before eruption . |
| 9 | ‘ Rational ’ — a word that can take on various meanings and get one into all sorts of trouble — is here being used to describe those models that ignore organizational behaviour and suggest that the decision-maker has near-perfect knowledge , power and insight , needing merely to conduct the necessary analysis and implement it . |
| 10 | An entirely different kind of problem in modern living is ‘ noise pollution ’ and that term is increasingly being used to describe the problem of excessive noise . |
| 11 | The use of successive pumice or ash deposits in building up a history of the eruptive activity in an area is known as tephrachronology , and this is increasingly being used to add precision to the study of the history of volcanic areas . |
| 12 | The PARTS tagger is currently being used to reduce the syntactic ambiguity problem for the FIDDITCH parser ( Hindle , 1983b ) . |
| 13 | This parser is currently being used to provide skeletal parses of the ACL/DCI corpus ( Marcus , 1990 ) . |