Example sentences of "be used in [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications .
2 They are used in many applications from catering dishwashing machines , pressure jet cleaners ( qv ) mechanical bottle and tray washers to complex clean in place systems and pipeline cleaners .
3 The dried fruits of this plant are used in many parts of Africa in traditional obstetrics and folk medicine .
4 The tarot cards he uses are used in many parts of the world to play card games , where their association with ‘ fortune ’ refers more to luck than knowledge .
5 Verbal presenting skills are used in many situations such as formal speeches , reports to senior management , announcements , shareholders ' meetings , sales conferences , union negotiations and communications with various levels of employees .
6 However , as there are only six notes in the system it is obvious that in four-part harmony without octave doublings only two notes can remain unused in each chord , and in five-part harmony only one note ; in six-part harmony all notes are used in each chord , even though the registers change .
7 This work started originally in , in erm Nottingham University and in Aberdeen University and erm now we 're rather lucky in that I think we have erm one company , Oxford Instruments , that supply almost all the big magnets that are used in this work all over the world .
8 If any logical names are used in this pathname , they must be system-wide logicals .
9 If any logical names are used in this pathname , they must be system-wide logicals .
10 If any logicals are used in this pathname , they must be system-wide logicals .
11 If any logicals are used in this pathname , they must be system-wide logicals .
12 Data from Landsat 's instruments are used in this chapter to illustrate geographical applications of remote sensing .
13 The following terms , explained below to avoid confusion , are used in this section :
14 The following terms are used in this section :
15 A wide variety of cake tins are used in this book , of many shapes and sizes .
16 The figures which are used in this report could be juggled in varying ways .
17 Vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae meningitis are used in some countries and are currently undergoing extensive trials in the UK .
18 A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research .
19 Variants of it have been used in many situations .
20 Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again .
21 This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant .
22 This method has been used in such systems as ROBOT ( Harris , 1977 ) .
23 Homophony is probably the commonest choral texture of all , and has been used in all periods .
24 After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance .
25 ‘ That cabinet would have been used in that Granada programme about India , I think , yes Jewel in the Crown , that 's it , ’ he said vaguely during a guided tour of the warehouse .
26 Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees .
27 In Section 8–2 , we outline the one-sector equilibrium growth model that has been used in most treatments of the dynamic effects of taxation .
28 We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture .
29 The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 .
30 The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies .
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