Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [is] [adv] used [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Vinyl sheet flooring is the modern equivalent of linoleum , and provides a smooth , hygienic and easy-to-clean floorcovering that 's widely used in kitchens , bathrooms and hallways .
2 Though this comes in for constant robust internal criticism and revision , it is more thorough than that of many professional advice and counselling organizations and is increasingly used as a model by other organizations .
3 The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ‘ empty vessels make the most noise ’ .
4 CATALINA PBY-6A EC-FMC is still working for its living and is actively used as a fire-bomber .
5 The two pole dome originated on the continent but is best used in protected valley pitches .
6 The parallel-derived , series-inserted feedback with unity feedback fraction makes it a very valuable circuit that is much used as a buffer in electronics .
7 This was expanded upon in a SAVE book ten years later , Churches : A Question of Conversion , which received wide acclaim and is much used by church authorities , planners , parishioners and architects .
8 It can be used when studying specific paddle strokes such as the low brace , forward paddling and bow rudder but is best used as an average overall measure of the paddlers style .
9 Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety .
10 The assessment , against which the parent can appeal , seeks to identify a child 's specific needs and is then used as the basis for eventual school placement .
11 According to Naisbitt , this technique was used extensively by American intelligence during the Second World War and is still used by intelligence services today .
12 Our own solution has been to subject the material about each author to a formal analysis , applying a psychiatric assessment procedure that is widely used in research and clinical practice .
13 The elderly population is based on the estimated increase in population of the over seventy five year olds , and indeed that is the factor that is now used in S S A in terms of looking er , the need to spend on elderly people .
14 This is a good method of starting a small group of boards without a race organiser and is commonly used in training .
15 The Pittsburgh group incorporated a radioactive ‘ label ’ into the coat proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus ( a virus that causes a mild disease in livestock and is much used in interferon research ) .
16 Abulafia used the phrase ‘ to untie the knots ’ to describe this process of getting beyond our normal sense-perceptions — it is a phrase that is also used in Tibetan Buddhism .
17 Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights .
18 ‘ It 's like selling coal to Newcastle , as eleutherococcus comes from Siberia and is widely used in Russia , ’ said Eladon director Mr Ross .
19 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 .
20 This technique minimises water application to the cleaning area and is often used with solvent hard surface cleaners or degreasers .
21 It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result of data analysis , and for mapping onto a database ( the logical schema ) .
22 It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result on data analysis .
23 The procedure is to simulate the effects of input data uncertainty by a Monte Carlo approach that is often used in statistics to perform exact significance tests .
24 The myrobalan P. cerasifera also has early pink blossom and is often used for hedging , but will grow into a graceful small tree .
25 A tank cutter has an adjustable arm which scribes the hole and is best used with a carpenter 's brace .
26 To do this Micro Focus is building on the ANSI ‘ 85 standard that sub-divides procedures into Nested Programs ( where a program is specified within a program and is then used in the context of the larger program ) .
27 It is available in granular form , in various sizes and is usually used in deep beds , sited as near as possible to the odour source and can be obtained as a charcoal cloth .
28 This is called cost effectiveness analysis and is regularly used in defence , public health and other fields .
29 We therefore investigated the effect of Bcl-2 expression on c-Myc-induced apoptosis in Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells arrested either with thymidine , which causes a block in the S phase , or with the epipodophyllatoxin etoposide ( VP16 ) , a topoisomerase II inhibitor that arrests cells in S/G2 and is frequently used in cancer chemotherapy .
30 By contrast , REM sleep shows a strong internal cause and is often used as a marker of the body clock .
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