Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be used [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advice on the bases believed to be used by the Shares Valuation Division of the Inland Revenue are available from the Shares Valuation Unit in London Office . |
| 2 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 3 | The language of science overlaps with that of ordinary life , but words like ‘ field ’ , ‘ elementary ’ and ‘ family ’ came to be used in the later nineteenth century in rather different senses in physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 4 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | Firstly , donkeys began to be used in the draft capacity , which was not too serious a blow , but the advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction . |
| 6 | To meet this demand springs began to be used in the fifteenth century in place of weights as the source of motive power in clocks . |
| 7 | Combined Concerns had said that after the shed ceased to be used by the railway , it had several business uses , but none proved viable . |
| 8 | nineteenth-century term for any negro ; said to be used in the West Indies for those who are ‘ half-negro and half-Indian ’ . |
| 9 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 10 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 11 | They continued to be used in the next generation by Charles the Bald . |
| 12 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 13 | Chemical weapons continued to be used by the Iraq regime against its own people . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many more cards than usual had to be used for the intricate border work with those not in use stacked ready beside the loom . |
| 16 | Substantial military force had to be used in the Baltic and in Poland where martial law was instituted . |
| 17 | A hydraulic platform from Hartlepool fire station had to be used by the fire brigade to bring him safely down . |