Example sentences of "[is] [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 2 | At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed . |
| 3 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 4 | In France , from where the machines originate , double knitting is mostly used for lace . |
| 5 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 6 | A basic sense of wonder ( a ) to foster their capacity for imagination which can give rise to vision , realizing that reality can be greater and other than it often seems — so that they appreciate that a flat two-dimensional approach to life is not the only option available ; ( b ) to understand that religious faith expresses itself in a variety of forms , many of which are close to the arts , and to realize also that religious language is mostly used in symbolic or metaphorical ways ; ( c ) to appreciate the emotional power of religious commitment and how this can be beneficial or harmful . |
| 7 | This is the power of film when it is properly used . |
| 8 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 9 | Acupuncture is widely used in human alternative medicine . |
| 10 | This was developed by the Aldus Corporation and Microsoft particularly for images obtaining from scanning devices , and is widely used in desk top publishing . |
| 11 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 12 | Video monitoring is widely used by local authorities , the police , companies and private security firms . |
| 13 | It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day . |
| 14 | Norfolk is a county poor in stone , particularly in the north , where flint is widely used as a building material , with brick dressings . |
| 15 | Statistical sampling is widely used in scientific experiments and market surveys . |
| 16 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 17 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 18 | 1989b ) , and is widely used in social work . |
| 19 | Gypsum is widely used in the building trade as ‘ Plaster of Paris ’ . |
| 20 | Caustic soda : is widely used in process industries in circulating systems where the solution is primarily used for cleaning . |
| 21 | Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle . |
| 22 | This approach is widely used in the competitive sphere as David Hemery reports in The Pursuit of Sporting Excellence ( Collins , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | This is widely used because of the comfort and lack of restriction of the upper body . |
| 24 | This system may exploit water at temperatures of between 60 degrees centigrade and 12 degrees centigrade and is widely used today in France , USSR , Hungary , Iceland and many other locations . |
| 25 | This came from Morton 's Italian subsidiary and used to have a good market in Eastern Europe , though this has recently collapsed , and is widely used in sport shops and luggage , being washable and breathable — and cheaper than real leather . |
| 26 | Cassava , sugar cane , fruit crops , coffee and cotton are also grown and irrigation in the Venezuelan region is widely used for grain production . |
| 27 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 28 | The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale , for example , which is widely used as an IQ test , can be scored to yield a profile of 11 subscales . |
| 29 | The outer conductor ‘ Coax ’ is widely used to carry radio . |
| 30 | Tritium is widely used in medical diagnosis and research , and comprises the largest individual component of the UK low-level sea dump . |