Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | They is normally used anaphorically ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 : 14 ) . |
| 2 | Birch is a sustainable and fast-growing timber from northern Europe , but it is rarely used for fine furniture because of the skill required to convert the logs . |
| 3 | It is rarely used as a solo instrument ( at any rate melodically ) but is inimitable as a means of enriching an orchestral background . |
| 4 | ‘ It is rarely used — nowadays , ’ Felipe de Santis said shortly . |
| 5 | The provision is so cumbersome it is rarely used ( see p73 ) , and in any event it can be availed of only where " all reasonable care " had been taken to avoid such misunderstandings . |
| 6 | The ordinary use of the term " correlate " , where it is ordinarily used , is perhaps for a type of individual rather than an individual . |
| 7 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 8 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 9 | To put it another way , a noun , as an item from the lexicon of the language , has descriptive content and may be considered as a property concept just as much as any verb or adjective , with only the exception that it is habitually used in individual acts of communication in order to identify an entity , by means of that descriptive content . |
| 10 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 11 | It can be mixed with basmati rice to give an attractive appearance , but it is generally used for stuffings for game . |
| 12 | Although the term , delta , was originally derived from the Greek letter which approximates in shape to the Nile delta , it is generally used with a wider range of meanings today . |
| 13 | It is generally used in an exclusive rather than an inclusive sense . |
| 14 | In fact , the dining room should bc a particularly interesting room to decorate , because , like the bathroom , it is generally used for comparatively short periods of time , and then mostly at night . |
| 15 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 16 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 17 | It is normally used in association with ripening and colouring , and for roses therefore apply in June onwards — hoe and water in ½ ounce ( 14g ) per square yard ( square metre ) at no more than 3–4 week intervals . |
| 18 | It is normally used on a range of Chinese rugs which employ the more traditional designs , and can sometimes be so authentic in appearance that experts have been fooled . |
| 19 | It is normally used for writing . |
| 20 | If you want to use Castle Drachenfels in conjunction with The Enemy Within campaign , it is best used after Power Behind the Throne or later . |
| 21 | It is best used on calcareous soils — chalks and limes — and light soils that can stand being made a little more heavy and sticky . |
| 22 | It is best used after being steeped in water for a few hours . |
| 23 | Although a native of such areas as the Middle East and the Caucasus , it is largely used only in French cooking . |
| 24 | Brown mustard is the one grown commercially as it is a shorter plant , at 120–150cm ( 4–5ft ) and the seeds do not fall off easily ; it is largely used instead of black mustard , and has a slightly less hot flavour . |
| 25 | First , the aim in which it is designed and manufactured ; second , the retail chain that distributes it ; and third , the households in which it is finally used . |
| 26 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 27 | Do not use zinc as a pure chemical with fish ; locked up in the seed it is slowly used and is not present in an overwhelming amount . |
| 28 | However , it is frequently used for long distance tows , because there is less of a tendency to get a slack rope during level flight in the low tow position . |
| 29 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 30 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |