Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] use " in BNC.

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1 Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions .
2 This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property .
3 Footpath erosion is also a common feature of landscapes that are widely used by walkers .
4 The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training .
5 This enables us in section 16.3 to understand the definitions of money that are officially used in the UK .
6 Instead , says Ms Fitzgerald , most interest is coming from users that are already using applications , particularly groupware , at slower speeds , which they now want to accelerate .
7 The indicators that are traditionally used are the money spent on health care or the number of health workers per head of population .
8 Furthermore , you automatically get more of the popular components , and fewer of those that are infrequently used .
9 Also during this process he should begin to note down ( on cards ) details of specific titles that are heavily used and may require duplication .
10 In particular they demonstrate how definitions can be used to generate word-relation-word triples that are then used as data to build the lexicon .
11 And like all the lettuce , the you know , all the foods that are usually used in the shop , we just use it for ourselves anyway .
12 As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience .
13 Among the anaesthetics that are commonly used are pentobarbitone , tribromoethanol ( Avertin ) and fentanyl-fluanisone ( Hypnorm , Crown Chemical Co .
14 The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’
15 Reading brochures and newspapers these days , you ca n't help but notice the amount of ‘ buzzwords ’ that are commonly used .
16 But leaving this to one side , Pearlin and Schooler do deal with some methods of mentally restructuring the meaning of the difficulty that are commonly used to reduce distress .
17 It 's all anonymous , you 're not e e e nobody know who it is , it 's for it 's for a dictionary and they want new words that are commonly used and they do n't want and all old words that never get used it 'll be dropped in the next edition of the dictionary .
18 The chip could revolutionise the design of computers and other electronic devices by doing away with the bulky magnetic disc memories that are currently used to store data permanently .
19 The aims are to provide data that is not currently available about the earliest stages of diabetic eye disease , and enable a reassessment of the screening strategies that are currently used by GPs and optometrists for detecting the condition .
20 It is ethyl acetate and isopropanol , not their systematic equivalents , that are still used in coating or laminating flexible webs for numerous industrial applications .
21 Proficiency in kung fu requires that the use of the entire body , bringing into focus muscles that are seldom used in day-to-day living .
22 Apart from the Firearms and Public Order Acts , which are both specific , it is the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 and the Criminal Justice Act 1988 that are mainly used to prosecute weapon carriers .
23 Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables .
24 There are two adjectives that are constantly used to describe him , both of which he despises : ‘ boyish ’ and ‘ energetic ’ .
25 The most common opportunistic infections associated with AIDS is a type of pneumonia , called pneumocystic pneumonia , and Kaposi 's sarcoma. o There is nothing else to explain the suppression of the immune system , such as the use of drugs , such as steroids , that are deliberately used for their immunosuppressive effects .
26 As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions .
27 With procedures that are only used occasionally it is less likely to be successful and the trained group may even forget their training .
28 is made from Guernsey milk from the Duke of Wellington 's cattle and processed in vats that were originally used for making Edam .
29 Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community .
30 Here follow Some pointers that were actually used .
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