Example sentences of "[was/were] use [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explosives were therefore concentrated on one pier , while the balance were used to blow up a small bridge over the Ginestra , a tributary of the Tragino , over which repair traffic would have to come . |
| 2 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 3 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 4 | They were used to clean up any unpleasant incidents from which HM Government needed to distance itself . |
| 5 | It appeared to be British and was probably one of the highly mobile units known as Jock ’ columns which were used to carry out harassing attacks on the German flanks . |
| 6 | A jet and two hose reels were used to put out the flames . |
| 7 | Dogs were used to put down a land reform demonstration outside the National Congress in Asunción on June 23 , 1989 ; 10 people were injured in what was the first major use of force since Rodríguez had seized power . |
| 8 | The proceeds , together with capital earned from trading , were used to wipe out net borrowings of £13.8m , the equivalent of 17% gearing . |
| 9 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 10 | The ponds provided by damming these streams were used to build up pressure to drive heavy tilt-hammers through wooden water-wheels . |
| 11 | The court heard that forged American Express and Visa Gold cards were used to run up huge bills at the restaurants . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did n't have a hairbrush but a long pole that was used to open up the attic hatch . |
| 14 | Well it , it 's likely to be of charged under one of the loose clauses of anti-government er activities which really could mean anything , and so there , it 's more likely to be that , and if so , we have to look at the evidence then that was used to back up this claim . |
| 15 | Fewer digits were repeated when the right rather than the left hand was used to carry out a tracking task . |
| 16 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 17 | This information was used to gross up the values declared by respondents to give estimates of exports for all exporting companies in Grampian . |
| 18 | Such weaponry may have been designed principally for warfare and combat , yet the existence of wild animal bones on settlements , especially deer , points to hunting being a means of supplementing the diet ; yet what was used to bring down such game ? |
| 19 | Tear gas was used to break up demonstrations by 300 striking bus drivers and students in Managua on July 21 . |