Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago .
2 These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you .
3 The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire .
4 The gifts of the Holy Spirit are always used to build up the body of Christ and ‘ prepare God 's people for the work of Christian service ’ ( Ephesians 4:12 ) .
5 Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost .
6 This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide .
7 You also pay premiums into an endowment savings plan or pension plan — the proceeds of the endowment plan when it matures , or the cash sum at retirement from the pension plan , are used to pay off the capital at the end of the loan .
8 Adjustable compensating magnets are fitted and these are used to take out the effect of deviation when the compass is checked ( " swung " ) .
9 Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves .
10 In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being .
11 In this section some familiar examples of gravitational and inertial forces will be used to bring out the correspondence between these forces and the metric connections .
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