Example sentences of "be [adv] used [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications . |
| 2 | Minimum reserve ratios are widely used around the world to restrict credit , including in the USA , Japan , Canada and all the EC countries other than the UK and Luxembourg ( see Box 17.3 ) . |
| 3 | The geometric compositions are derived from traditional village and nomadic designs and are widely used in the Soviet Union , Pakistan and Afghanistan . |
| 4 | London , especially Inner London , gains considerably from the heavy weight given to population density and to a range of household characteristics derived from the Census , which are widely used in the redistributional formulae . |
| 5 | Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits . |
| 6 | Both terms are widely used in the everyday speech of laymen concerning economic and business affairs . [ … ] |
| 7 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 8 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 9 | The presence of Thalassiothrix in Neogene sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific has been widely used as an indicator of significant upwelling and high primary production . |
| 10 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 11 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 12 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 13 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 14 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 15 | However , the Rubislaw Quarry , stone from which has been widely used throughout the area , is located in the Aberdeen granite , which is less geochemically evolved and has a lower uranium content than the other granites . |
| 16 | Collocations ( and the concordances from which they are derived ) have been successfully used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |
| 17 | This approach has been successfully used with a number of well known models of the UK economy , including the models of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , the London Business School and HM Treasury . |
| 18 | The fibre composite model has been successfully used by the author and his associates to explain the properties of ultra-drawn polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene . |
| 19 | The answers and commentary given below are intended to provide Tutors with an insight into the way in which these questions and the approach underlying the design of the review questions and problems for discussion have been successfully used by the authors and others with a number of different groups of students . |
| 20 | The three buildings in Croydon which are exclusively dedicated to the education of adults are intensively used as an important access point for people following general non-vocational , basic skills , accredited and work training programmes . |
| 21 | been long used by the Seneka Indians to cure the bite of the rattle-snake which , if taken in time , is an infallible remedy . |
| 22 | But you are so used to an unquestioned independence that you forget how many people do n't have it , people who , in human terms , Christian terms even , have just as much right to it as you do . |
| 23 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 24 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 25 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 26 | No doubt it has been so used by the unknown one who has been arranging the thefts . |
| 27 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 28 | Woks are best used over a gas flame . |
| 29 | Three- and four-part chords are effective only in f and ff , and are best used in the orchestra when a series of emphatic detached chords is desired . |
| 30 | They are best used in an inspirational setting as part of a total church-life conference . |