Example sentences of "be be used [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training schemes are being used to keep a pool of potential workers with low expectations who are forced to take any job that might come along , no matter what the conditions or level of pay . |
| 2 | In the deal that gave Air France part of Czech airline CSA , EBRD funds were being used to finance a deal between two state airlines , one of them run by his brother Bernard . |
| 3 | It 's not therefore new money that 's coming to us , it 's , it 's money that 's already in the system , it 's being used by an existing client route , and it 's being used to buy a chair that is already there . |
| 4 | a private hire vehicle which is being used to carry a passenger for hire ; |
| 5 | The Prince of Wales visits Castlebrae High tomorrow to see how more than £1.2 million of Urban Aid cash is being used to create a World of Work complex to give pupils a taste of what ‘ real ’ jobs are like . |
| 6 | Shaped like a giant cow it is being used to advertise a rave party . |
| 7 | The Cray computer at Rutherford Laboratory is being used to investigate a number of topics for which the simulation of large scale econometric models is appropriate . |
| 8 | Of course you could always just turn it off — but that 's not always possible , especially if the air pump is being used to run a sponge or box filter . |
| 9 | Certainly MacArthur 's economic advisors were horrified to find on their arrival from the US , that the need for liberal competition was being used to justify a purge of thousands of business leaders , and they viewed the dissolution of the zaibatsu as a threat to the whole fabric of Japanese capitalism . |