Example sentences of "[prep] [be] used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy .
2 Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time .
3 Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface .
4 So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche .
5 A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character .
6 Many more cards than usual had to be used for the intricate border work with those not in use stacked ready beside the loom .
7 The latter has been the chosen course , with the Federal government establishing welfare programmes , and guidelines for their operation , whereby part ( if not all ) of the costs of programme implementation are met from Federal money , and allocated to the State governments to be used for the defined purposes .
8 On Aug. 2 agreement was reached by representatives of the governments of East and West Germany on the electoral system to be used for the all-German election .
9 Standard bobbins can not be used for E cores , since all three legs have to be used for the isolated topology .
10 For Althusser 's claims are by no means easy to understand , and one reason for this is the fact that they are all exceedingly general , so that it is often unclear how they are to be used for the vital task of explaining particular states of affairs .
11 They had spacious vestibules at both ends to give a large standing capacity , which regulations never permitted to be used to the full .
12 Our buildings are an asset to be used to the full .
13 Such a system would demand a truly interactive use of computers in a way that allows the very different capabilities of the computer and the human mind to be used to the full .
14 Nevertheless , the questions themselves , at this stage , will be the main focus , and also at this stage we might allow more questions to be included than are likely to be used at the final stage .
15 Two prizes will be offered at each show , the first a £50 voucher to be used at the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's sale in August and the second a voucher to the value of £25 .
16 Mrs Hawkins suggested that tablecloths — non iron variety — should be purchased to be used at the various functions requiring tables .
17 ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information .
18 Where any form in Schedule 4 to the rules is substantially the same as a form used under the corresponding old law and rules , it can continue to be used with the necessary modifications until the Lord Chancellor directs otherwise ( r 12.7(3) ) .
19 Although there is some latitude between these grants , in that part of the capital grant can be transferred to be used on the current grant , the distinction between them is maintained and is important .
20 The 24-inch diameter pipes are being transferred from British Pipe Coaters , of Leith in Scotland , for Irish utility company Bord Gais in Dublin to be used on the Irish Sea natural gas interconnector project .
21 They used to hold Hury Show in a field alongside the pub , and there was a wooden hut called the Show Room to be used on the big day , where dances were also held on a regular basis .
22 if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice
23 Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks .
24 There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks .
25 The densities of water application may vary considerably according to category of goods and storage height and it is therefore important to predict both the highest category of commodity and storage height likely to be used during the reasonable life of the building .
26 Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century .
27 The addition of extra hardware might enable it to be used during the editorial phases of the project .
28 Transmitters of varying quality , power and suitability were subsequently left behind to be used in the postwar development of radio for Africans .
29 Substantial military force had to be used in the Baltic and in Poland where martial law was instituted .
30 The outer limits shown in Figure 7.5 will allow all but 0·2 per cent of the items produced to be used in the finished product .
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