Example sentences of "be used [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most versatile of the vinegars , these are used for general cookery and in many of the classic sauces . |
| 2 | At Magee College , the playing fields , which are convenient to the campus , are used for gaelic football , rugby and soccer . |
| 3 | In order to explore this more fully , we focus on a tax on capital at rate t assuming initially that the proceeds are used for current government expenditure . |
| 4 | The outcomes of these analyses are used for lexical access . |
| 5 | It is recognised that these are important aspects of the learning and teaching approaches for the modules and it is recommended that they are used for formative assessment . |
| 6 | Three common sizes are used for domestic plumbing — l5mm , 22mm and 28mm , all known as ‘ smallbore ’ . |
| 7 | They are used for rapid saving and restoring of the " process context " on entry to and exit from a subroutine , or in processor mode changes ( see 3.5 ) . |
| 8 | Some are used for public transport . |
| 9 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 10 | Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption , milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed . |
| 11 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 12 | A router is fixed to the cross-slide of the lathe for some operations , other jigs are used for spherical work . |
| 13 | These hot seeds are used for English mustard ( see p60 ) . |
| 14 | The local registers are used for local scalar storage as described , and the low registers are used for local storage and parameters to the procedure ‘ below ’ the current procedure . |
| 15 | Pre-packed , sterile Falcon ( Becton Dickinson & Co ) plastic Petri dishes , tubes and pipettes are used for conventional culture . |
| 16 | Stock cubes should always be checked for their salt and calcium content before they are used with brown rice , and sweetcorn should always be cooked without salt . |
| 17 | Diagrams presenting data and clear summaries are used to good effect . |
| 18 | But they are just as difficult to read if you are used to political hypocrisy . |
| 19 | Note here whether any general types of grammatical construction are used to special effect ; eg comparative or superlative constructions ; coordinative or listing constructions ; parenthetical constructions ; appended or interpolated structures such as occur in casual speech . |
| 20 | Remember that you will be often attempting the hard-sell on people who are used to aggressive business practices . |
| 21 | Omanis are used to foreign attention . |
| 22 | South Tees Health Authority will hear on Thursday it may be because teenagers can not always get condoms easily and they do not have the negotiating skills to insist that condoms are used during sexual intercourse . |
| 23 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 24 | Parts of the moorland — some would say too many — are used as military training areas and are closed to the public at certain times . |
| 25 | There are several examples in the book where still images are used at key moments in the drama as part of the dramatic fiction , notably " The Giant Awakes " ( Chapter 5 ) , where the images are used as photographic evidence . |
| 26 | Research by Dataquest and Technologic Partners indicates 70% of the networked Unix servers ( and 80% of NetWare servers ) are used as dedicated file servers , stripped of applications by their administrators to improve performance . |
| 27 | Research by Dataquest and Technologic Partners indicates 70% of the networked Unix servers ( and 80% of NetWare servers ) are used as dedicated file servers , stripped of applications by their administrators to improve performance . |
| 28 | Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) take the view that syntactic computation seems to take place automatically , but that the extent to which the results of such computations are used in normal comprehension depends on whether or not pragmatic or semantic cues are available to aid interpretation . |
| 29 | Various payment methods are used in international trade , the variations usually depending upon the degree of trust between the exporter and importer ( and their respective bargaining strengths ) . |
| 30 | Only certain parts of the spectrum are used in remote sensing because radiation at some wavelengths is absorbed by gases present in the atmosphere , particularly ozone and water vapour . |