Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 2 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 3 | The most distant neighbour version ( barr ) was used for ordering the YAC library . |
| 4 | Wheeler was used for filming the massed destruction of the American P–40s . |
| 5 | It is often found near old mills where the extract was used for washing the woollen cloth produced there . |
| 6 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 7 | The Registrar-General 's classification of occupations was used in making the social class assessments : classes I and II ( professional and managerial ) were termed ‘ middle class ’ and classes IV and V ( semi-skilled and unskilled ) ‘ working class ’ . |