Example sentences of "[be] used [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 2 | Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong . |
| 3 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 5 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 6 | In this article the word ‘ word-processor ’ has been used many times . |
| 7 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 8 | They take time to make , but can be used many times . |
| 9 | As the material is recorded it can be used many times . |
| 10 | The advantages of films , video-tapes and MEDIATRON programmes are that they allow the careful preparation of material which is recorded and so can be used many times . |
| 11 | In substantial problems , this technique may be used many times before one finally resolves the question . |
| 12 | He hopes that the equipment will be used 12 hours a day once demand builds up . |
| 13 | Both cards , when used with your Personal Number ( PIN ) , let you draw cash from any of our nationwide network of AutoBanks , which can be used 24 hours a day , 7 days a week ; and at all NatWest Servicetills . |
| 14 | Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary . |
| 15 | Wooden shuttering would char in the process , but could still be used several times . |
| 16 | Each launcher in the SS-20 system can be used several times , and the Soviets probably allocate two or three missiles to each launcher . |
| 17 | Clearly , Greeley and Rossi 's findings could be used both ways , and in fact both camps in the Irish debate have found it supportive of their case . |
| 18 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 19 | This measure was used twelve times by Raymond Barre ( 1978 to 1981 ) ; ten times under Mauroy and Fabius ( 1981 to 1966 ) ; seven times in 1986 alone ( Chirac ) . |
| 20 | Possibly Northern audiences found the French an affectation as the original subtitle , the Excelsiors , was used many times . |
| 21 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |