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 | They did not ‘ rebel ’ in the way that young men did , but rather used this kind of fantasy material as a source of escapism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In our passage , almost every verse reads ‘ I ’ or ‘ Me ’ ; in the earlier chapters of the book , Paul has hardly used these words . |
| 11 | Watts and Quimby also used many sites which were not at junctions , sites which generally ranked extremely low on both subjective and objective risk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Language is often compared to a code , and we have also used this analogy in earlier chapters . |
| 14 | Whitbread and Bass have both used that expression . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If Fforde was describing the phenomenon whereby late Victorian and Edwardian commentators frequently used both terms to describe anti-individualism , this would be justifiable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had never used such language , and shouting the word aloud added fuel to his temper . |
| 21 | Because I 've never used that word before , he 'll say something completely pathetic . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He has never used those powers . |
| 24 | I have never used those words or words to that effect . |
| 25 | I 've told you , I 've , well I 've never used this machine , machine before have I ? |
| 26 | I have never used this model railway , but I saw which way he went . |
| 27 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 28 | Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later . |