Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] used " in BNC.

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1 These areas are predominantly used to rear hardy beef cattle and sheep which are sold in the autumn to be finished elsewhere .
2 Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers , especially in the grocery trade .
3 Cloches are widely used to protect strawberries in spring and to produce an early crop .
4 Caesium is , of course , the largest simple cation in the periodic table and zeolites are widely used as detergent builders to ‘ bind ’ smaller ions , eg Ca 2+ .
5 They are widely used in genetic engineering as vectors into which foreign genes are inserted for subsequent cloning or expression in cells .
6 Nonetheless , simple systems are widely used to do ab initio calculations accurate enough to answer important questions for reasonably complex molecules .
7 Mixed with QACs they are widely used as skin disinfectants and are mainly associated with medical uses as are chlorhexidine gluconate and cetrimide .
8 Some people use this instinctively in their windsurfing in stronger winds and especially now that seat and waist harnesses are widely used .
9 In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue .
10 Footpath erosion is also a common feature of landscapes that are widely used by walkers .
11 In Nigeria until very recently it has been very strongly reflected in the national syllabus guidelines and materials or derivatives are widely used at state level .
12 Last month we looked at the Dorian , Aeolian , Locrian , Melodic and Harmonic Minor scales ; today I 'd like to look at other minor scales which are widely used in today 's music .
13 The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training .
14 Sherpa Underblankets are widely used in N.H.S. hospitals to relieve painful hips , shoulders , elbows , neck and knees .
15 Many of these compounds are widely used in industry for cleaning and degreasing metals , for dry cleaning , and for processing leather .
16 It will be selectively marketed in countries like the UK , France and Spain where cheques are widely used .
17 These last terms are widely used as acceptable synonyms for ‘ legal ’ and ‘ illegal ’ respectively .
18 The ICC 's Incoterms are widely used by exporters and forwarders involved in the shipment of goods .
19 The good ones are those which , for all their rough edges , are found to work and are widely used .
20 These prepared public relations tapes work wonders and are widely used .
21 Such open questions are widely used during questions to the Prime Minister .
22 The geometric compositions are derived from traditional village and nomadic designs and are widely used in the Soviet Union , Pakistan and Afghanistan .
23 Such tariff structures are widely used ( consider , for example , telephone charges ) and can in principle lead to outcomes superior to straightforward average cost pricing .
24 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 .
25 32 P isotopes are widely used in molecular biology laboratories and emit high energy beta particles ( E max = 1.71 MeV ) , reaching 6.1 m in air 1 without significant attenuation 2 .
26 Photographs are widely used in publications but , despite the persuasive nature of scanner manufacturers , they can not yet be successfully integrated into desktop publishing .
27 Terminals and wires are widely used for power transfer by nearly all manufacturers .
28 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 .
29 They are widely used as entrance qualifications for higher education .
30 Controlled indexing languages are widely used in many systems because of their versatility in :
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