Example sentences of "be use [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |
| 2 | If our oil revenues are used merely to pay the unemployed , who now cost an estimated £18,000 million each year , the burden to those in work will suddenly increase by this amount when the oil revenues cease . |
| 3 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 4 | Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified . |
| 5 | The occurrence of convulsions carried risks of bone fractures and of other injuries , but ingenious psychiatrists encouraged the development of standardized preparations of curare which could be used clinically to prevent the muscular component of the electrically-induced seizures . |
| 6 | They have a unique flavour and need only to be used sparingly to enliven the dullest of dishes . |
| 7 | This is used widely to determine the functional state of the brain , but is difficult to relate to the operations of different areas . |
| 8 | The concept of the testator 's intention is used merely to establish the likely meaning attached by him to the words , and this is a technique applied as much in civil-law dispositions as in trusts . |
| 9 | If it is used only to improve the pupil-teacher ratio within special schools then its value is limited . |