Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [is] [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 2 | Vinyl sheet flooring is the modern equivalent of linoleum , and provides a smooth , hygienic and easy-to-clean floorcovering that 's widely used in kitchens , bathrooms and hallways . |
| 3 | The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ‘ empty vessels make the most noise ’ . |
| 4 | CATALINA PBY-6A EC-FMC is still working for its living and is actively used as a fire-bomber . |
| 5 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 6 | The two pole dome originated on the continent but is best used in protected valley pitches . |
| 7 | A story that is sometimes used to explain market opportunity concerns the managing director and marketing director of a shoe-making firm , who were visiting a less-developed country . |
| 8 | Another hand technique that is often used is the crane 's beak . |
| 9 | Answer guide : This introduces the idea of arriving at the amount of stock using sales less mark-up , a technique that is often used to produce regular accounts in the retail sector . |
| 10 | Indeed , our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s , when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new , bizarre technique . |
| 11 | The parallel-derived , series-inserted feedback with unity feedback fraction makes it a very valuable circuit that is much used as a buffer in electronics . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the structural failure in flight of a privately owned light aircraft of a type that is extensively used , possibly all over the world , must justify an investigation in depth while a four engined airliner carrying 400 passengers damaging its wing-tip on a passenger terminal building while taxying need not rate so highly . |
| 13 | This was expanded upon in a SAVE book ten years later , Churches : A Question of Conversion , which received wide acclaim and is much used by church authorities , planners , parishioners and architects . |
| 14 | Cochrane 's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services . |
| 15 | It can be used when studying specific paddle strokes such as the low brace , forward paddling and bow rudder but is best used as an average overall measure of the paddlers style . |
| 16 | Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety . |
| 17 | Many people are confused by the jargon that is often used to describe the process of storing and retrieving information . |
| 18 | According to Naisbitt , this technique was used extensively by American intelligence during the Second World War and is still used by intelligence services today . |
| 19 | This is a very popular instrument which gives a lively and happy sound and is always used to accompany singing . |
| 20 | Our own solution has been to subject the material about each author to a formal analysis , applying a psychiatric assessment procedure that is widely used in research and clinical practice . |
| 21 | The elderly population is based on the estimated increase in population of the over seventy five year olds , and indeed that is the factor that is now used in S S A in terms of looking er , the need to spend on elderly people . |
| 22 | This is a good method of starting a small group of boards without a race organiser and is commonly used in training . |
| 23 | Abulafia used the phrase ‘ to untie the knots ’ to describe this process of getting beyond our normal sense-perceptions — it is a phrase that is also used in Tibetan Buddhism . |
| 24 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 25 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 26 | This technique minimises water application to the cleaning area and is often used with solvent hard surface cleaners or degreasers . |
| 27 | Our music has the same origin and function as any work song — it arises spontaneously out of a particular movement and is then used to lead , inspire and increase the rhythmical flow so that the movement is performed with minimum effort and maximum pleasure . |
| 28 | It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result of data analysis , and for mapping onto a database ( the logical schema ) . |
| 29 | It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result on data analysis . |
| 30 | The procedure is to simulate the effects of input data uncertainty by a Monte Carlo approach that is often used in statistics to perform exact significance tests . |