Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 2 | I had n't the remotest idea , but I followed the little rails which were used by the tiny railway to carry food up to the dining rooms … |
| 3 | Here there are many quintas which were used by the wealthy Funchal merchants in the summer months . |
| 4 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 5 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 6 | This expression replaces the phrase " excisable liquor " which was used in the 1959 Act , and is defined in s.139(1) . |
| 7 | The ammonium salt was dissolved in H 2 O , adjusted to pH 9.5 with NaOH , and passed through a column of ion exchange resin ( Diaion HP 20 , Mitsubishi Chemical Industries , Japan ) to give the sodium salt of PABA-UDCA disulphate , which was used in the reported experiments . |
| 8 | And later in the war , in 1943 , it was this imposing natural wall of shingle which was used by the famous Dambusters as a practice target before their attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're not ordering anything , refrain from fighting an leave this café please , ’ replied Joy , who was used to the unkind remarks made by the ‘ left-side people ’ . |
| 10 | And he , he who was used to the subtle caresses of experienced women , did he want the responsibility of that fearful flesh ? |
| 11 | He was a man who was used to the supernatural but he was amazed at the things that he saw ! |
| 12 | The operators ignored it as they were used to the odd US aircraft in the area . |
| 13 | They were used in the desperate flight of Joseph and his people . |
| 14 | However , surely if they were used in the right situations , then they could be extremely useful ? |
| 15 | They were used by the small group of masters who established the teaching credentials of the University of Paris , notably Stephen Langton [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 17 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 18 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 20 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 21 | Caulophyllum is also known as squaw root because it was used by the Red Indian squaws to achieve easy childbirth . |
| 22 | Leonardo da Vinci 's students painted the copy of the the Last Supper under their master 's direction , and it was used in the recent restoration of the original wall painting . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 24 | It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth . |
| 25 | Moreover , it was used in the Hung Mao manner-in that curiously inverted way of theirs , where the family name was last and not first . |
| 26 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |