Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [be] use [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite official US State Department denials that food aid would be used as a political weapon , it was felt that Sudan 's pro-Iraqi stance in the current Gulf crisis ( unlike Ethiopia which supported the US-led blockade of the Gulf ) had made Western governments more reluctant to offer unconditional aid to Sudan . |
| 2 | While Unix Labs 's value-added reseller and equity relationship with Chorus Systemes SA has prompted speculation that the Chorus microkernel would be used as a matter of course , Miracle said that in the US , and certainly in government circles , Carnegie Mellon University 's Mach was a popular choice . |
| 3 | In October 1989 a judicial commission had been set up to inquire into alleged destabilization at the university ; some lecturers feared that the findings of the inquiry would be used as a pretext to dismiss teaching staff and to suppress trade union activity on the campus . |
| 4 | We 'd been told which room would be used for the meeting so we did n't have to search the whole building . |
| 5 | The lease would be used as a pretext for the wholesale felling of timber , which even then was in short supply for building and repairing ‘ your Majesty 's shyps , wych are the Jewells of your kingdom ’ . |
| 6 | The chancel would be used for a bar , the pulpit and font used as containers for plants , and the nave filled with fixed ‘ banquette ’ seating in booths . |
| 7 | An internal bulletin board would be used by the Library for bibliographic services , and by Computing to send out technical bulletins . |
| 8 | More precisely , we might look for a set of conditions or circumstances which lead to the expectation that Creole would be used in an interaction . |
| 9 | ‘ The judge has set our fears at rest that Ridley 's decision would be used as a precedent for demolishing thousands of other listed buildings , ’ said Mr Marcus Binney , the group 's president . |
| 10 | Sometimes a donkey would be used for the same purpose . |
| 11 | Here , too , weapons were not used , though , afterwards Sir Kenneth put the people of London ‘ on notice ’ that plastic bullets and CS gas would be used in the event of future disorder ( ibid.:267 ) . |
| 12 | In the real situation , assuming that the model was a reasonable reflection of the real-world activities , this information would be used by a variety of functional groups , and an investigation without a master checklist would be complex and potentially inaccurate . |
| 13 | The antler and noose would be used in the mock execution of the Morrisman , and the wild jig would bring everyone on to the green , laughing and screaming in the hot , summer night … |
| 14 | The land would be used for the construction camp , but he had no doubt that there were ultimate plans to follow Lord Marshall 's alphabetic progression into D and even E stations . |
| 15 | Understandably there was continued suspicion that their lower levels of pay would be used by the shipowners to " stabilise " wages for the period of the war and after . |
| 16 | It was not intended that the Villa would be used as a residence ( the east wing of the old mansion being retained as the family residence ) , but mainly for the exhibition of the fine collection of paintings and sculptures which the Duke had gathered together , including examples of Holbein ; Rembrandt : Leonardo da Vinci ; Titian ; Van Dyke and Rubens . |