Example sentences of "used [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built . |
| 2 | As they lie smoothly on top of one another , they were also used for the principal retaining walk around the lawn . |
| 3 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 4 | I have few comments to make , except that the sack survived very well , save for some sections of the Advent material used for the back and inside the shoulder straps , which were eaten by salt-seeking grasshoppers ! |
| 5 | Moulded nylon is used for the free-floating trigger bar which can be used with one or two fingers , inside or out . |
| 6 | Netting can also be stretched over the hoops used for the popular polythene tunnel cloches . |
| 7 | Acupuncture is used for the healing and relief of pain such as arthritis , muscle and ligament strains , and some forms of paralysis . |
| 8 | Standard bobbins can not be used for E cores , since all three legs have to be used for the isolated topology . |
| 9 | Red tile set on edge was to be used for the centrepiece , Portland stone for the surround , brown pebble paving for an infill , blue and white pebbles to make a star design , white marble for the path through the pergola . |
| 10 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |
| 11 | Robert Darby , 25 , a youth leader known as The General , and Leslie Thomas , 26 , were yesterday convicted at Southwark Crown Court of permitting premises to be used for the control and supply of drugs in relation to acid house parties . |
| 12 | Material : The type of material used for the outer and inner cover of the bag : AluN-Alu coated nylon , BS-Balloon Silk , BTr-Brushed Tricot Flannel , C-Cotton , CC-Cotton Cambric , Cl-Caralight Nylon , CP-Cotton Polymide , Ct-Caratex ( Caravan Fibre ) , FP-Fibre Pile , Go-Goretex , Fl-Fleece , M-Microlight Microfibre , N-Nylon , N219d-Nylon 219 Denier etc . |
| 13 | Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In voicing his theory of impersonality , and in searching for terms of extreme yet impersonal expression anthropology was important in terms of the ideas and structures which it provided , but also in terms of its vocabulary again often used for the communication of deep distress . |
| 16 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 17 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 18 | But disenchantment set in because the outdated Merlin ( used for the Avro Tudor and Canadair Four ) clearly had little future , and the more rewarding prospect of a senior job on the new Dart engine ( destined for the Vickers Viscount ) kept being thwarted by delays to the project . |
| 19 | Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart . |
| 20 | Tower mills are similar to smock mills in shape and working machinery , but brick or stone is used for the structure instead of wood . |
| 21 | It is easy to see that this was a practical means of enclosing a large volume which then could be used for the storage of grain , and the profile is reminiscent of the gambrel-roofed hay barns in the USA . |
| 22 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 23 | The team aims to provide an educational training package based on the syllabus used for the Institution of Environmental Health Officers ' course . |
| 24 | In multi-ethnic areas , with their ‘ symbolic locations ’ like All Saints Road and Broadwater Farm , used for the sale of drugs and stolen goods , police could not act alone . |
| 25 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 26 | Thomas , of east London , plotted to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 27 | Thomas , of the Isle of Dogs , east London , was found guilty of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 28 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 29 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 30 | PURPOSE GROWN TIMBERS from North America , Scandinavia and Italy are used for the wooden kitchen ranges |