Example sentences of "used [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 2 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 3 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
| 4 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 5 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 6 | It rests also on the insight that income " transferred " by this means was not used only for the minimum relief of destitution , for the old , widowed , orphaned and infirm , but also for the purchase of some " decencies " , for the supplementation of the earnings of the underemployed as well as the relief of the involuntarily unemployed , and for the apprenticing of the children of the poor . |
| 7 | Not only does this pick them out , but the underline can be used only for the main emphasis of the sentence . |
| 8 | This method has been used only in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The statement makes clear that sanctions will be used only in the last resort . |
| 10 | The provision of trains that were solely first and second class , and therefore expected to be used only by the imperial race , helped this arrangement . |
| 11 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has already proposed a set of tests to be used along with the national core curriculum . |
| 13 | The new synthetic pitch at the Jordanstown campus has attracted the prestigious tournament to Northern Ireland for the first time in over a decade , and the impressive facilities at the campus will be used together with the new pitch at Valley Leisure Centre . |
| 14 | The Bach flower remedies and the homoeopathic remedies complement each other and can be used together in the same treatment plan . |
| 15 | Therefore they should not be used together in the same word . |
| 16 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 17 | Both are used exactly in the same way as the elastic . |
| 18 | Well first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of way . |
| 19 | Well , first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of work . |
| 20 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 21 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 22 | These pellets should not be used extensively in the domestic market because of the possibility of their producing toxic gases when incompletely burnt . |
| 23 | The approach is not restricted to a clinical population , but has been used extensively in the commercial world particularly in the fields of sales and management . |
| 24 | A truly incremental algorithm would improve its performance during a single search , so that information learned early can be used later in the same search . |
| 25 | This contrasts with the normality ratings obtained from Study 3 which were clearly used differently in the new context . |
| 26 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 27 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 28 | By section 5 of the 1987 Act , the liability covered by Part I of the Act extends to : a ) death or personal injury , b ) damage to or destruction of any item of property ( including land ) other than the defective product itself ( there is a lower threshold of £275 before a claim can be made ) provided that the property ; i ) is the type normally intended for private use and consumption , and ii ) it is used mainly for the private use or consumption of the person claiming . |
| 29 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 30 | Ice-houses in Britain date from the seventeenth century , and many of the great houses had private ice-houses built in their grounds before the advent of refrigeration — some were still used well into the present century . |