Example sentences of "[subord] it be [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ordinary use of the term " correlate " , where it is ordinarily used , is perhaps for a type of individual rather than an individual . |
| 3 | The richest source of MUFAs is olive oil — there is a low incidence of coronary heart disease in Mediterranean countries where it 's widely used . |
| 4 | An anti-Nazi lawyer , Serge Klarsfeld , discovered in mid-November that a Second World War filedrawn up by French police in October 1940 on the instructions of the Gestapo and containing information on all Jewish people in Paris was still in existence at the Ministry of War Veterans , where it was apparently used to check pension claims . |
| 5 | Although it is widely used , there are no generally accepted definitions . |
| 6 | Although it is now used with a cup , the saucer had a very different origin . |
| 7 | Notice that we avoid the ( anthropomorphic ) term memory , and the term core store , which presupposes a particular store technology ( although it is often used generically ) ; when we wish to distinguish among several levels of storage on a computer , we will refer to this basic level as main or primary store . |
| 8 | Although it was extensively used to model figures such as the river god at Ham , most of the surviving pieces are smaller decorative items such as the pineapple finials in the south terrace at Ham and the richly ornamented urns at Killerton in Devon . |
| 9 | I am glad Tom Regan mentioned this word , because it is often used in the wrong sense , as he implied , simply for anyone whose ideals are rather extreme . |
| 10 | is marginally grammatical , because it is often used although a precise grammar would reject it . |
| 11 | This is because it is chiefly used for steam raising in power stations and industry and , particularly in the former , it will continue to be replaced by coal and nuclear power . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the centre said : ‘ We were extremely disappointed to lose the karaoke machine because it was also used for our bingo calling . ’ |
| 13 | The availability of surplus cash for financing fixed asset investments tends to be limited , since it is often used to meet working capital requirements . |
| 14 | Even rotted FYM must be further broken down before it is fully used . |
| 15 | This is the power of film when it is properly used . |
| 16 | More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) . |
| 17 | Lynda Moss , editor of the RSC 's journal Methods in Organic Synthesis , said that it does not often crop up in published syntheses , though it is sometimes used as a source of in reactions as well as being a solvent . |
| 18 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 19 | It was admitted that this section worried the Fair Employment Commission , even though it was seldom used by employers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The label is awkward as it is also used loosely of anything inspiring a sense of inexplicable awe and mystery , however vaguely , or anyone thus moved . |
| 22 | It would have been parochial of us not to have mentioned it as it is still used in many other countries . |
| 23 | As with all COBUILD materials , the emphasis is on English as it is really used today , drawing on the evidence of the COBUILD corpus devised by Professor John Sinclair 's English Language Research team in the University 's School of English . |
| 24 | The record of a system should describe the system as it is actually used rather than the form in which it was originally intended to be used . |
| 25 | How children sometimes experience learning difficulties because they can not cope with the specialist language of science , as it is often used in books or by teachers . |
| 26 | The benefits of this are dubious , specially as it is often used for electoral purposes with destabilising inflationary effects for the domestic economy . |
| 27 | These addressing modes are a superset of the PDP-11 addressing modes with one exception , the PDP-11 addressing mode auto-decrement deferred was omitted from VAX as it was rarely used . |
| 28 | Pulegium is from pulex , the Latin for flea , as it was much used to deter , if not actually kill , fleas . |
| 29 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |