Example sentences of "[adv] used [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds .
2 ‘ It 's not much used these days , but I think you 'll find it comfortable for your purposes .
3 Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice .
4 It has a vital role in promoting the use of machine-readable data particularly amongst historians who have hitherto not used this type of material .
5 I have not used this method for the sample in the photograph as I have used King Cole Anti-Tickle wool which cables easily without the extra yarn .
6 Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century .
7 An adequate knowledge of the existence , timing , and source of postcoital pills was shown by 52 ( 30% ) of the 171 patients who had recognised a potential contraceptive failure and 25 ( 12% ) of the 210 who had not used any contraception — that is , 77 ( 20% ) of the 381 patients who might have benefited from their use .
8 They did not ‘ rebel ’ in the way that young men did , but rather used this kind of fantasy material as a source of escapism .
9 Dravis & yurewicz ( 1985 ) found that blue light emission spectroscopy aided identification of predolomitization fabrics ; Goodall & hughes ( 1985 , personal communication ) successfully used this technique in evaporite petrography .
10 Originally umbrellas were used to shade high ranking people and they are still used this way in some parts of the world , for example in Ghana .
11 Chairman I must respond to that , that the work secret road is not appraise donated to this organization , I think it 's one latched onto by the press to develop some headline , er nobody 's ever used that phrase about anything being secret in this organization whatsoever , the simple fact is that these drawings for your approval are not yet finished , that 's the extent of secrecy , my staff are still working on them , they 'll come
12 We wanted to know whether Ruby and her kind ever used another object to modify the rocks or sticks they found , to make true tools , in the human sense .
13 Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime .
14 In our passage , almost every verse reads ‘ I ’ or ‘ Me ’ ; in the earlier chapters of the book , Paul has hardly used these words .
15 Watts and Quimby also used many sites which were not at junctions , sites which generally ranked extremely low on both subjective and objective risk .
16 First , Patmore ( 1983 ) has broadly replicated the ‘ leisure/resources ’ approach of his pioneering ( 1970 ) text , and the multi-author text Land and Leisure , Fisher , Lewis and Priddle ( 1974 ) , and Doren , Priddle and Lewis ( 1979 ) has also used this approach in the American context .
17 Language is often compared to a code , and we have also used this analogy in earlier chapters .
18 Whitbread and Bass have both used that expression .
19 Whereas Marx often used this term to refer generally to what I have called the division by sectors or branches many recent writers have used it to refer to the division of functions , found within all branches in a capitalist economy , between the ‘ exploiters ’ or ‘ controllers ’ of labour power and the direct production workers .
20 If Fforde was describing the phenomenon whereby late Victorian and Edwardian commentators frequently used both terms to describe anti-individualism , this would be justifiable .
21 While the ability of the factual social survey to provide large-scale pictures of prevailing social conditions within a community is important , it is less frequently used these days .
22 Have always been interested in intelligence , escaped the germy epoch of Freud and am so bored with all lacks of intelletto that I have n't used any discrimination when I have referred to ‘ em … .
23 So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’
24 One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again .
25 He had never used such language , and shouting the word aloud added fuel to his temper .
26 Because I 've never used that word before , he 'll say something completely pathetic .
27 It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them .
28 He has never used those powers .
29 I have never used those words or words to that effect .
30 I 've told you , I 've , well I 've never used this machine , machine before have I ?
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