Example sentences of "it was used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 2 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 4 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 5 | Caulophyllum is also known as squaw root because it was used by the Red Indian squaws to achieve easy childbirth . |
| 6 | Leonardo da Vinci 's students painted the copy of the the Last Supper under their master 's direction , and it was used in the recent restoration of the original wall painting . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 8 | It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth . |
| 9 | Moreover , it was used in the Hung Mao manner-in that curiously inverted way of theirs , where the family name was last and not first . |
| 10 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |