Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the warehouse is primarily used for storage and distribution the supporting accommodation can comprise , receiving , and dispatch vehicle departments , with typical ‘ garage ’ type risks , the office accommodation to support these functions , as well as the offices for the ‘ paper-work ’ such as receipts of goods , retrieval/dispatch documentation and invoicing etc. , which may be largely manual or computerised with a nominal support staff , and the ancillary staff welfare and amenity spaces . |
| 2 | Where violence is neither used , threatened nor feared , it is not at all clear whether and when consent may be regarded as absent . |
| 3 | This command is typically used for browsing in either direction through sections within a part or paragraphs within a schedule at a constant textual unit size . |
| 4 | The same concoction is still used today for treatment of dropsy , a disease where excess fluid collects in the body tissues . |
| 5 | Utopia is currently used by such household names as AT&T , Johnson & Johnson along with 20 US corporations . |
| 6 | The other common instruction format is the two-address format , where each instruction holds the addresses of two operands , and one of these addresses is further used to hold the result . |
| 7 | The opposition is normally used to make distinctions , to argue that X and Y are polar opposites , X one thing and Y another . |
| 8 | The hot/cold opposition is also used to classify foods , plants , remedies and even pharmaceutical drugs which are not only widely available in most Central American street markets but are also used by some traditional healers and midwives . |
| 9 | The term mass concentration is also used in chemical calculations . |
| 10 | Herringbone stitch is generally used to hold a single turned edge securely in position against a single layer of fabric ( fig. 14 ) . |
| 11 | TELLY IS forever used as a springboard into the movies . |
| 12 | ( Superior quality Australian , New Zealand and Belouch wool is often used in the better items , however . ) |
| 13 | Indian wool , although not as good as Persian or Anatolian , is generally better than that found in Pakistan , and in the finer quality items superior Australian and New Zealand wool is often used . |
| 14 | Thus , the interview is often used to inquire into the beliefs and values of a particular social group on the supposition that these are crucial to the explanation of the behaviour of the members of the group . |
| 15 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 16 | The technique of guidance is often used by parents when a child refuses to comply with a request or instruction . |
| 17 | Gypsum is widely used in the building trade as ‘ Plaster of Paris ’ . |
| 18 | Importunity or threats , such as the testator has not the courage to resist , moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet , or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort , these , if carried to a degree in which the free play of the testator 's judgment , discretion or wishes , is overborne , will constitute undue influence , though no force is either used or threatened . |
| 19 | A dictionary of legal words is usually used to calculate the probabilities , but they can be calculated dynamically from the text being processed . |
| 20 | The same chemical is also used in the pulp and paper , brewing , dairy and agrochemicals industries , and also to purify water used in swimming pools . |
| 21 | DNA from the blood of dinosaurs is supposedly used to bring them back to life . |
| 22 | Play therapy is also used as a method of relieving anxiety . |
| 23 | This therapy is often used in conjunction with others . |
| 24 | The concept of a specific vulnerability is commonly used to explain why person A who experiences a severe event becomes depressed , but persons B , C , D and E do not . |
| 25 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 26 | In the schlieren method , parallel light is again used , but is brought to a focus after passing through the fluid . |
| 27 | Light is often used as a metaphor for God because it can convey both the presence and the unapproachability of the divine being . |
| 28 | Daylight and ordinary tungsten light do not mix together very well photographically ; on the other hand , fluorescent light is often used in kitchens and this mixes with daylight better than tungsten if ‘ daylight ’ tubes are in use , in which case set the camcorder white balance to the ‘ daylight ’ preset if you have the choice . |
| 29 | A central pendant light is often used to provide general light . |
| 30 | In practice , however , the term is normally used only to describe hand-made rugs produced by traditional methods in the ancient weaving regions of Persia ( Iran ) , Anatolia ( Turkey ) Afghanistan , the Caucasus , Baluchistan , Turkestan , China , India , Pakistan , the Balkans and parts of North Africa . |