Example sentences of "be use [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 2 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 3 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 5 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 6 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 7 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time . |
| 9 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 10 | The sum of these two numbers together will allow you to choose the most important and characteristic symptoms of the case which should be used for the next step . |
| 11 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 12 | This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 . |
| 13 | The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops . |
| 14 | And it can not be ruled out that even higher interest rates - whatever the political consequences — would be used in the last resort . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We hear that the Treasury 's coffers are already bloated with a £15,000 million surplus which is to be used in the next Budget to line the pockets of the Government 's private sector friends . |
| 17 | They continued to be used in the next generation by Charles the Bald . |
| 18 | Having examined the position in general terms , the insights will be used in the next section to gain a perspective on the situation in regulated and public concerns . |
| 19 | It is only necessary to indicate at each stage which proven solution will be used in the next stage . |
| 20 | These release nitrogen into the soil as they rot which can be used by the next crop . |
| 21 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 22 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 23 | However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights . |
| 24 | 1 ) , was being used by the fourth century to modernize Thessaly , and especially its towns . |
| 25 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 26 | Remotely-sensed data from the French SPOT satellite ( Chapter 5 ) are being used in the third study to augment the cartographic data layers . |
| 27 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 28 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |