Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] of " 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 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Adjustable compensating magnets are fitted and these are used to take out the effect of deviation when the compass is checked ( " swung " ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |