Example sentences of "used [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 5 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
| 6 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 7 | Phosphatidyl choline species composed of various acyl fatty acids in the sn-1 and sn-2 positions were used as the sole phosphlipid in otherwise identical model bile solutions . |
| 8 | In the discussion of data structures earlier in the chapter , it was stated that a lexicon , derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries , was used as the ultimate reference in the indexing process . |
| 9 | Here they are being used as the main character in a popular advert . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | a subheading used above the main headline in a newspaper article . |
| 12 | The possibilities of this type of exercise are endless , but it must always used in the right way in order to help you press forward into even more effective speechreading . |
| 13 | The metaphor is used in the New Testament in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | Other car makers are understood to be evaluating coil coatings which are commonly used in the automotive industry in Japan . |
| 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 | The employee needs to be given training in products , technologies and business methods used in the overseas company in which he will be working . |
| 17 | This is ‘ Community legislation ’ in the sense in which that expression was taken at the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 , and the phrase will be used in the same sense in this article . |
| 18 | Gold for Cooking is unique : it can be used in the same quantity in your recipes as butter or margarine but has 25% less fat . |
| 19 | This Larrain does by attempting to understand the concept so vaguely used in The German Ideology in terms of the more specific materialist theory of the Grundrisse and Capital . |
| 20 | if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice |
| 21 | He employed a builder from his home town who was well used to the sophisticated style in which the many rich cloth merchants were building their houses . |
| 22 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 23 | Used by the highest deity in heaven , its head is formed into the shape of a cloud . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is an approach employed by many countries : it was first used by the Soviet Union in 1951 , but it is the United States with which this strategy is most associated and which has made known its advantages and disadvantages . |
| 25 | The difference exists , as such , synchronically ; there is no need to import any knowledge of the history of the language that is not actually used by the ordinary speaker in the course of his or her normal unreflecting usage . |
| 26 | There is one other bizarre adaptation used by the female cuckoo in laying her eggs . |
| 27 | Aspirin was also used by the elderly woman in the first case . |
| 28 | Is the media merely a tool that can be used by the dominant group in society to bring about whatever change or lack of change they require or does it , by its nature , shape the influence it has on the population ? |
| 29 | The object of this research is to construct an international trade database that can readily be used by the academic community in the UK . |
| 30 | The expression the frog 's boon was also used by the old horseman in another way that is worth recording : it was heard as a kind of metaphor for ‘ being in control ’ . |