Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ curriculum ’ is generally understood but not widely used in higher education ; academics are more likely to speak of undergraduate studies in terms of courses , programmes , syllabuses/syllabi or content . |
| 2 | you 're right about that as well , not much used at all . |
| 3 | In the generation of the inventors of red-figure the Lysippides ( Andokides ) Painter and a companion of Psiax , the Antimenes Painter , head the principal workshops , specialising in neck-amphorae and hydriai , shapes not much used in early red-figure . |
| 4 | PERT was originally developed on a probability basis but is not much used in this way now because of the amount of work involved . |
| 5 | PERT was originally developed on a probability basis but is not much used in this way now because of the amount of work involved . |
| 6 | There might be some advantage if anthropologists regularly wrote about " cosmology " rather than about " religion " , if only because the former word is not much used by ordinary speakers of ordinary English . |
| 7 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 8 | It should also include an analysis of what modern people understand by the very concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , for it is a concept , which is not only used by social scientists , but which is also significant in ordinary discourse . |
| 9 | Moreover , this lever is strengthened by electoral democracy , which legitimates the promotion of locally preferred policies , and in this way local states , and especially electoral local government , are not only used by those dominant at the centre to enable them to manage uneven development , but can also represent specifically local interests . |
| 10 | These punctuation marks are not sufficiently used in technical writing and can be of assistance in preparing reports . |
| 11 | The seaplanes that do remain are small aircraft , not generally used for scheduled passenger services . |
| 12 | Differential facets are subfacets which are placed adjacent to specific facets to which they apply ; they are not generally used with all of the facets in the scheme . |
| 13 | A problem has arisen with certain PP3s ( pods are not normally used with this system ) where the female terminal has hooked rather than completely crimped segments . |
| 14 | It is not normally used between two complete sentences ( where a semicolon or colon is used instead ) , but is used to separate off various supplementary things in a sentence . |
| 15 | These aims and guidelines were not usually used as working documents in the schools . |
| 16 | With rectangular Cartesian coordinates in Euclidean space the distinction between vector and covector components disappears , which explains why covector components are not usually used in Newtonian mechanics . |
| 17 | Though the social survey method was not extensively used in Chicago-inspired studies , and there was some scepticism about what it could achieve for sociology compared to field research , with the appointment of Ogburn in 1927 , a statistically trained sociologist , the pace of the development of quantitative methods quickened . |
| 18 | Such areas were not often used for arable , until later drainage operations ensured that water could be kept off the fields for most of the year . |
| 19 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 20 | At present MRI is not routinely used in clinical practice for assessing bone marrow malignancy , but as scanners become more widely available , there is little doubt that this field will expand into one of the major applications of MRI in oncology . |
| 21 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 22 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 24 | This method is not commonly used for two main reasons . |
| 25 | Living in London with her husband and daughter , Tricia is n't particularly used to big gardens — so the town variety has become her speciality . |