Example sentences of "is now [adv] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land previously used for cereals is now either used as grassland ( perhaps mainly temporary ) or for fodder crops . |
| 2 | The upgrading has been very popular locally , and the path is now well used by local residents especially to exercise dogs ; it is used by cyclists , esp . |
| 3 | SIR — ‘ The South ’ is now widely used as the collective term for non-industrialized nations , with the implication that there is either a consistent trend of a major discontinuity in the relationship between latitude and socio-economic development . |
| 4 | SIR , — Surfactant treatment is now widely used for the treatment of hyaline membrane disease ( HMD ) in the preterm infant . |
| 5 | Coriander is now widely used in similar ways to parsley — as a garnish , or sparingly in meat dishes . |
| 6 | Biogas produced in this way is not widely used as an alternative energy source in the developed world , but is now widely used in China where several million small-scale digesters have been constructed to produce fuel for cooking and lighting at a local level . |
| 7 | It is now widely used in developed countries to treat people with AIDS or other serious HIV-related illness . |
| 8 | This package has been very successful in meeting the needs of those wishing to use macroeconomic models as an aid to their understanding of the economy , for example it is now widely used in teaching . |
| 9 | These effects of bFGF have been documented with our modification of chronic gastric ulceration induced by serosal application of acetic acid that is now widely used in studies of the efficacy of various antiulcer drugs . |
| 10 | The systems approach is now explicitly used in biogeography and Simmons ( 1978 ) , for example , in discussion of the ecosystem scale distinguishes two approaches that are often made : one which is synoptic and develops from intuitive perception of an ecosystem to studies of ecological cohesion including , where relevant , the significance of human activity ; and another approach which is more analytical whereby measurements are made of the flow and partitioning of energy through the ecosystem and of the cycles of mineral nutrients within the system . |
| 11 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 12 | In these cases some psychiatrists resort to the description ‘ schizoaffective ’ which , although itself an old term , is now often used in recognition of the fact that the traditional categories of schizophrenia and affective psychosis really only represent varieties of insanity as they occur in their pure forms . |
| 13 | After a trial of loop ileostomy in totally stapled restorative proctocolectomy loop ileostom is now only used in selected cases ( four in the last 18 cases after closure of the trial ) . |
| 14 | In larger firms , the latter is now commonly used as a stepping stone to the former . |
| 15 | In painting in Renaissance Italy , where the term ‘ school ’ is now commonly used in classification , the crux of the definition is usually a particular city — Florence or Venice — within which certain identifiable styles and techniques were developed , sometimes by direct teaching , at other times by the more general facts of civic association and mutual influence . |