Example sentences of "[noun pl] used the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle-class reformers and those with more radical opinions used the newest ideas to discredit the ‘ old-fashioned ’ science favoured by the traditional sources of power and influence . |
| 2 | So these early groups used the newly-acquired strength of their stems to grow very tall and become trees . |
| 3 | Thereafter they were obliged to register as payers of fur-tribute ( for which the Russians used the Tatar term yasak ) . |
| 4 | We owe to the same Caesar the information that the Druids used the Greek alphabet ( 6.14 ) . |
| 5 | They also realised that it might only be a matter of time before Poland 's enemies used the same tactic as part of a concerted effort to wipe the country from the maps again . |
| 6 | Miss McIntosh said it was also essential contractors dredging local channels used the retrieved aggregate on Essex sea walls rather than transport it to coasts elsewhere in the EC . |
| 7 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 8 | A few schools used the Minor award to take on " major " challenges , while two were successful in receiving additional project funds in a subsequent year , presumably an acknowledgement that the initial diagnosis of their need was only partially informed . |
| 9 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 10 | Other subjects used the first part of the show included the Dart Valley railway , the Red Arrows and computer graphics . |
| 11 | And a contemporary of theirs , Columella , describes and recommends distinct kinds like the Armerian , the Cestine and the Syrian , showing that apple-growers used the same system of naming as today — after the finder , some benefactor or notable person , or the place where the apple came from . |
| 12 | In fact , blacks used the Titanic disaster as a symbolic setting for the confrontation between the privileged whites and the poverty-stricken blacks who were excluded from the vessel ( Levine , 1977 , p.427 ) . |
| 13 | Serbs and Croats used the same language , and readily married each other , especially in the cities . |
| 14 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |
| 15 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 16 | Only the music created slight differences and this not markedly because the composers used the best of commonly recognised traditional musical idioms . |
| 17 | Occasionally , flatpickers used the big Guilds . |
| 18 | But during living memory farmers used the following practice to control the gleaning and to prevent forestalling and argument among the gleaners . |
| 19 | In Wellingborough abolitionists used the electoral machinery of the Whig candidate to circulate anti-apprenticeship material and in Gloucester reached the electors with a separate electoral address . |
| 20 | The three CAD programs used the same input and shape adjustment routines . |
| 21 | Operations continued , with the many paradoxes of guerrilla warfare : both sides used the civilian telephone network ; several Australians attended Sousa Santos 's wedding anniversary celebrations . |
| 22 | All the simulations used the same zonally symmetric chemical initial conditions . |
| 23 | He and his courtiers used the French work " intellectual " to refer to them . |
| 24 | The road he was on , veering left , would lead eventually to the station but was , he knew , seldom used since normal traffic and all heavy vehicles used the new access road to the north . |
| 25 | Accompanied by rolls of the drum , the two showgirls used the whole floor to tumble — running , somersaulting , back-flipping — while the whip cracked threateningly around their ankles . |
| 26 | Working-class men used the various associations of the working-class movement , developing particularly the trade unions and the Labour Party . |
| 27 | However , I still think that there must be an easier way for hotlines to work — if all publishers used the same system , for example , and if they did n't insist on choosing the titles . ’ |
| 28 | But more important still was that throughout the period feminists used the same analytical frameworks as anti-feminists . |
| 29 | This time nearly a quarter of the bottom band and 10 per cent of the top two-thirds of pupils used the wrong scale . |
| 30 | As all 256 colours are displayed at once , the palette takes up quite a large proportion of the screen , and it would have been preferable to be able to select the ones used the most and create your own custom palette . |