Example sentences of "[noun pl] be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that system too there was no requirement that set words be used to establish a trust , but the law insisted that words be used which manifested an intention on the part of the settlor to impose the obligation of a trust on the donee . |
| 2 | Can any bricks be used to lay a path ? |
| 3 | Measured aliquots of lipid stock solutions were used to produce a model bile with the desired composition : cholesterol — 10 mol% , bile salt ( sodium taurocholate ) — 72 mol% , phospholipid ( egg yolk lecithin ) — 18 mol% , total lipid concentration — 8.0 g/dl . |
| 4 | Because the junction of a pair of roundels produces a triangular interstitial space internally as well as externally , one of two such internal areas was used to accommodate a WC , which is reached from an intermediate landing of the staircase ( Fig 41 and Plate 17 ) . |
| 5 | The water is diverted by ingenious and simple means , with large stones , sods of grass , old woollens and nylon stockings being used to block a channel and divert the water to another one to irrigate the land and fill the storage tanks . |
| 6 | When emergency procedures are used to take a child into care , the Social Work Department has to obtain a Place of Safety order signed by a Sheriff or a Justice of the Peace . |
| 7 | Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process . |
| 8 | Various behaviours are used to induce a loss in weight and in addition to the obvious ones of the avoidance of foot and undereating , including binge eating , self-induced vomiting , laxative use and the use of other drugs ( appetite suppressants and diuretics ) . |
| 9 | The values from at least two chromatograms were used to obtain a mean ; the percentage individual bile acid present was calculated from the micromolar concentrations . |
| 10 | The illustration of double ropes being used to protect a second on a traverse is incorrect ; the drawing of a double-fisherman 's knot is actually of a single-fisherman 's ; the section on rigging anchors seems very sketchy with no consideration of using the rope to equally load them , rather than slings ; different types of shunt are discussed for self-protection on abseils but there is no mention of the cheap , simple prussik knot as an alternative , or the even more effective French prussik linking the controlling rope to the leg-loop of the harness . |
| 11 | Charles Luker — not a bondholder until 1937 — proposed that entrance fees be used to start a Bond Redemption Fund and although passed , it was a short-lived move . |
| 12 | Like the county ‘ sheepdippers ’ and the borough men , both the specials and the British Transport Police were used to sustain a view of our own preeminence . |
| 13 | There are , the book argued , many ways of ‘ being at home in the town ’ , with many examples of good practice already visible today in maturing towns ; in densely populated areas with narrow streets ; in ‘ a celebratory way ’ by making a quiet little green island at the opening of a street ; in a new town ; in existing residential areas where the space around the houses and garages is used to make a series of squares and narrowings ; or ‘ in a happy way ’ where flowers and trees are so colourful that parked cars are less intrusive . |