Example sentences of "are use [prep] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important that we should all realise that surveys show that a quarter of all stolen cars are used for death riding , just as a quarter of all car thefts happen to unlocked vehicles — which is our fault . |
| 2 | • The scales of the Arapaima are used as nail flies in Brazil , and its tongue is sold as a souvenir . |
| 3 | Words in the closed class , on the other hand , are used in order to express grammatical relations between words . |
| 4 | Transformations of Landsat image data are used in order to combine the information present in the four MSS or seven TM bands in some particular way . |
| 5 | Agreement markers are those utterance types — whether lexical items , sentences or sentence fragments — which are used in conversation to show agreement with a proposition . |
| 6 | These are mental representations of typical situations , and they are used in discourse processing to predict the contents of the particular situation which the discourse describes . |
| 7 | Polymers are compounds of large molecules which are derived from the combinations of smaller ones , and biopolymers are likewise similar structures which are used in science to represent organic cellular structure . |
| 8 | MACROCYCLIC ligands — cyclic organic molecules with a central cavity — are used by nature to bind metal ions in such important molecules as haem , chlorophyll and vitamin b 12 . |