Example sentences of "[vb base] be use [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if developing countries dislike being used as illicit rubbish dumps , they must devote much more cash and effort to improving the quality of their own waste-disposal facilities , and preventing illegal dumping . |
| 2 | What is more , we hate being used as political footballs by cynical politicians . |
| 3 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 4 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 5 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 6 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 7 | The term simulate is used in this chapter to mean mimic or copy a real event or situation . |
| 8 | In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda . |
| 9 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 10 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 11 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 12 | Milk and honey are just two kitchen cupboard stand-bys that have been used since ancient times in beauty routines , so give these recipes a go . |
| 13 | Because the Codds have been used to tiller-steered boats , they were very keen that Sparkle be similarly equipped . |
| 14 | These tests have been used for individual student assessment and as instruments for the product evaluation of instructional programmes . |
| 15 | Cheaper , mass-produced furniture may have dowel joints instead of tenons , and you may find that screws have been used for makeshift repairs in the past . |
| 16 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 17 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 18 | Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort . |
| 19 | Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons . |
| 20 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 21 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 22 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 23 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 24 | Micropalaeontological studies on recovered core samples have been used for stratigraphical studies on behalf of petroleum exploration companies . |
| 25 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 26 | They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys . |
| 27 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 28 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 29 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 30 | For example , the laws of optics , derived by induction from the results of laboratory experiments , have been used on numerous occasions in the design of optical instruments and these instruments have functioned satisfactorily . |