Example sentences of "and used [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cut costs and save heat , the hot gases formed during combustion may be recycled and used to preheat the incoming effluent gases . |
| 2 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 3 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 4 | Of the remaining six vehicles , four will be converted from surplus Inter-City catering vehicles and used to provide the principal dining saloon and accommodation for the Royal Household and other staff . |
| 5 | The six graphs describing the freedoms of the complete system were then available ( see Figure 7.34 ) and used to produce the incremental assemblies shown in Figure 7.35 . |
| 6 | UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record . |
| 7 | Traditionally the damaged bone was either left to repair and replace itself as best it could or bone was harvested from elsewhere in the body and used to augment the lost bone . |
| 8 | Others , less fortunate , are caught as game and used to supply the necessary protein for family consumption . |
| 9 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |