Example sentences of "[noun pl] were used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 2 | I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms . |
| 3 | Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround . |
| 4 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 5 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 6 | Phosphatidyl choline species composed of various acyl fatty acids in the sn-1 and sn-2 positions were used as the sole phosphlipid in otherwise identical model bile solutions . |
| 7 | A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons , particularly axes , shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC : ‘ pure ’ copper ; arsenical copper ( an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic ) ; tin bronze or leaded tin bronze ; and iron . |
| 8 | In the second series , similar techniques were used on the postcecal colon and transit assessed two hours later . |
| 9 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 10 | In Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal electrically-powered tugs were used until the 1950s because poor ventilation prevented the use of engines which produced exhaust fumes . |
| 11 | After 1981 , the Securitate and other security forces were used as the prime means of settling industrial disputes and demonstrations . |
| 12 | It is a mark of the extraordinary faithfulness of St. Mark to the historical situation of the life of Jesus that he does not read back into those days the experience of the Spirit to which he and his friends were used in the post-resurrection era . |
| 13 | Double-deckers were used for the maximum impact , including the historic Dreadnought , in 1964 . |
| 14 | EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For a while Ayrshire and Durham Shorthorn bulls were used on the Breton cows but the results were not worth while . |
| 17 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 18 | These hammocks were used until the 1920s to carry tourists to Monte and the surrounding countryside , the pole-bearers being human taxis . |
| 19 | Phosphatase inhibitors were used at the following concentrations . |
| 20 | You are right to note that two of your photos were used in the last magazine . |
| 21 | Only 12 types of links were used in the semantic net that supported the final draft of the Hypertext book . |
| 22 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 23 | Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis . |
| 24 | Obscenity laws were used in the 1920s to ban Radclyffe Hall 's book , The Well of Loneliness . |
| 25 | The dividends received on the shares were used towards the partial repayment of the loan . |