Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [is] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's how it 's used and what people do to get it that can offend our values . |
| 2 | The effect of any drug depends on the drug itself , how it is used and the person using it . |
| 3 | Can you please advise my what should have been contained , and explain how it is used ? ’ |
| 4 | How it is used becomes the responsibility of others , not the searchers . |
| 5 | Why you think the advertiser has chosen that method and how it is used . |
| 6 | In section 5.1 , we explain what is meant by a price index and show how the UK Retail Price Index is constructed and how it is used to calculate the rate of inflation on a month-to-month basis ; other ways of measuring inflation are also briefly discussed . |
| 7 | Whether or not a notional syllabus will help to promote a communicative competence will depend on just how it is used , how grammatical and situational factors are taken into account in the manner of its implementation . |
| 8 | They locate the category of ‘ knowledge ’ in a social context rather than an epistemological one ; it is not the validity of knowledge but how it is used that is of importance to the sociology of knowledge . |
| 9 | It will surprise nobody that I should like to redistribute the All England Club 's money for them but in so doing , give them more direct control over how it is used . |
| 10 | Literacy , then , is not , as Goody appears to be arguing , a ‘ neutral ’ technology , with ‘ potentialities and restrictions ’ depending simply on how it is used . |
| 11 | But as the scale of direct marketing has grown , so has the concern among consumers about how mailing lists are compiled , where the information comes from and how it is used . |
| 12 | However , semantic theories must consider not only how knowledge is represented but also how it is used , so these two approaches are treated separately . |
| 13 | A protractor has been drawn on top of your map to show how it is used . |
| 14 | ( a ) They depend on the evidence and how it is used . |
| 15 | How it is used , and by whom , is monitored by the police national computer organisation , and auditors in forces and in the police national computer organisation ensure that the security and operational procedures in forces are complied with . |
| 16 | The main documents that are used to convey the financial information are the balance sheet , which lists the sources of the company 's capital and how it is used in the company , and the profit and loss account , which quantifies the aggregate expenditure and income of the company . |
| 17 | The main documents that are used to convey the financial information are the balance sheet , which lists the sources of the company 's capital and how it is used in the company , and the profit and loss account , which quantifies the aggregate expenditure and income of the company . |
| 18 | It is concerned with the data that exists , not how it is used . |
| 19 | This manual is intended to provide its readers with a general understanding of what LIFESPAN is , what it does and how it is used . |
| 20 | This type of Credit is particularly popular in America where it is used ‘ to guarantee payments to shareholders in leveraged buy-outs , to receive reimbursement of the purchase price of a champion thoroughbred should it fail to sire offspring , and to underwrite the obligation of a boxing promoter to deliver the purse to the winner ’ ( Letters of Credit — Euromoney Publications ) . |
| 21 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 22 | It has given the go-ahead — and a $3 million grant — to a British company which plans to manufacture soap containing mercuric iodide for export to Africa , where it is used to lighten skin colour . |
| 23 | For instance , the foreign in foreign policy is the same foreign as in foreign goods ( where the adjective is ascriptive ) ; likewise the associative abdominal of abdominal support expresses just the same idea as does the ascriptive adjective in : ( 16 ) this abdominal region is naturally more sensitive than the upper arm Similarly , in ( 9 ) we saw an alteration in the meaning of the noun qualified , but there was no reason to suspect the word Italian in itself of contributing two different values in the cases where it is used adjectivally . |
| 24 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 25 | For Lifebuoy has an antiseptic action that looks after health upstairs , downstairs , at the sink , wherever it 's used ! |