Example sentences of "be use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 2 | It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters . |
| 3 | You qualify out of that as an acting corporal , then you 're used by other classes ; for example , as a helper or decoy in staged attacks . |
| 4 | The lowest concentrations ( ½ to 2 per cent ) are used for facial oils , children , and for those with sensitive skin . |
| 5 | The most versatile of the vinegars , these are used for general cookery and in many of the classic sauces . |
| 6 | As for the evolutionary precursors of the system , both hydrogen peroxide and various kinds of quinones are used for other purposes in body chemistry . |
| 7 | English is one of the languages that do not use tone in this way though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes ; such languages are sometimes called intonation languages . |
| 8 | He said there were ‘ good grounds for suspicion that certain offshore banks are used for fraudulent purposes ’ . |
| 9 | But documents can be dangerous things if used without care and if , as sometimes happens , they are used for partial and selective purposes . |
| 10 | Auditory verbs are used for mechanical activities : clanking , thumped , rapped , whistled . |
| 11 | The same products are used for treating scabies as are used for pubic lice . |
| 12 | At Magee College , the playing fields , which are convenient to the campus , are used for gaelic football , rugby and soccer . |
| 13 | In order to explore this more fully , we focus on a tax on capital at rate t assuming initially that the proceeds are used for current government expenditure . |
| 14 | Means and 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for the mean are used for descriptive statistics and graphs . |
| 15 | The outcomes of these analyses are used for lexical access . |
| 16 | Improved Panel Fit — Advanced constructional techniques are used for critical joints such as the roof/bodyside and wheelarch/side panel . |
| 17 | It is recognised that these are important aspects of the learning and teaching approaches for the modules and it is recommended that they are used for formative assessment . |
| 18 | Three common sizes are used for domestic plumbing — l5mm , 22mm and 28mm , all known as ‘ smallbore ’ . |
| 19 | They are used for rapid saving and restoring of the " process context " on entry to and exit from a subroutine , or in processor mode changes ( see 3.5 ) . |
| 20 | Some are used for public transport . |
| 21 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 22 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 23 | Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption , milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed . |
| 24 | Although the two forms are almost certainly not interchangeable in JC , having different functions , both are used for past actions and map broadly on to the British English simple past . |
| 25 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 26 | X/Open specifications are used for low-level interfaces and communications standards include EDI , SNA-LU6.2 , CPI-C and future OSF/DCE/DME elements . |
| 27 | X/Open specifications are used for low-level interfaces and communications standards include EDI , SNA-LU6.2 , CPI-C and future OSF/DCE/DME elements . |
| 28 | Ecological and forestry studies are conducted on sites throughout Scotland while local forest areas are used for detailed experimental work . |
| 29 | A router is fixed to the cross-slide of the lathe for some operations , other jigs are used for spherical work . |
| 30 | These hot seeds are used for English mustard ( see p60 ) . |