Example sentences of "widely use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These last terms are widely used as acceptable synonyms for ‘ legal ’ and ‘ illegal ’ respectively .
2 It is still widely used on citrus fruit , soybeans , coffee beans , tobacco , cotton and other crops .
3 Widely used on modern boards , these are a combination of hard and soft , giving good water release and maintaining grip in turns .
4 ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity .
5 Linear dynamic models are widely used for economic forecasting and policy analysis .
6 This is widely used for steady or mean pressure measurements but can not respond to rapid fluctuations .
7 Reports of the importation of 2,000 Israeli Uzi submachine guns and Galil assault rifles three weeks before the coup , and which were widely used by rebel soldiers , lent credence to this view .
8 This step ladder is Kite marked , and has a Class 2 duty rating , which makes it suitable for all household needs ; it is also widely used by professional tradesmen .
9 These devices are widely used by professional fund managers to gain highly cost-effective exposure to stock markets without having to buy the underlying shares .
10 No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors .
11 This was a feature widely used by nineteenth-century Italian balletmasters and by Bournonville .
12 Fortunately , I had chosen a computer that was , at that time , widely used by small businesses , so a variety of software was available .
13 Although to my knowledge no digital scanner has yet succeeded in penetrating the ravages of gall , that most seductive and most lethal of enhancing media so widely used by 19th-century archivists , electronic cameras and image processors are working effectively on fire damage , glue and other forms of obliteration .
14 The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland .
15 American elder ( Sambucus canadensis ) is a closely related species and was widely used by American Indians as a folk medicine .
16 Video monitoring is widely used by local authorities , the police , companies and private security firms .
17 At yesterday 's hearing Mr Robert McCartney , QC , who is representing the objectors , pointed out that the park was a unique combination of shoreline walks , a beach and wooded areas widely used by local people .
18 However , they have been widely used by Tough and by many of the teachers she has worked with and thus , from a practical point of view , they seem to have been well tried and tested by practitioners .
19 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 .
20 Today it is being widely used in Papua-New Guinea , as they move to independence .
21 The Coulter counter is widely used in industrial laboratories and in medical situations but relatively rarely by academic sedimentologists .
22 With their improved handling and reduced hazards they are , however , widely used in small operations particularly catering where the small quantities used are generally more economic .
23 It is now widely used in developed countries to treat people with AIDS or other serious HIV-related illness .
24 The term " plenipotentiary " , which by the later seventeenth century was also being widely used in diplomatic titles , mainly in the form " minister plenipotentiary " , was even more of a verbal decoration .
25 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 .
26 Both market-based measures and conventional accounting rates of return , widely used in other studies , will be considered .
27 Coriander is now widely used in similar ways to parsley — as a garnish , or sparingly in meat dishes .
28 PCBs were widely used in electrical transformers and capacitors until they were banned in 1977 .
29 Widely used in Eastern cookery and in strict vegetarian diets in other parts of the world , tofu is bean curd and can be eaten cold or cooked in a number of ways .
30 Today , mixed herbs , including chicory , yarrow , burnet , rib grass , and sheep 's parsley are becoming widely used in long ley mixtures .
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