Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 2 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 3 | A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements . |
| 4 | It was used for a few emergency landings by Royal Air Force planes during the recent Falklands War . |
| 5 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |