Example sentences of "[was/were] use [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 2 | The new Checkmate sails were used aboard the Jeanneau Selection that Eddie Warden Owen used to beat the French in their Jeanneau Selection Championship , and recently in the Hamble winter series on David Tydeman 's Bénéteau First 38s5 and the new J/35 , Jailbird , again sailed by Warden Owen . |
| 3 | They were n't terribly popular , I do n't think , because of course , the women were used to a personalized fit , and when you get , start getting mass production like that , then obviously a lot of the very good fitting garments that , I mean that 's just not possible . |
| 4 | Governments were used to the fairly simple process of changing a syllabus , but confronted with a new orthodoxy that it was desirable to engage in curriculum development , they were usually happy initially to see this potentially time-consuming exercise take place outside the Ministry , at University Institutes of Education or specially constituted curriculum development centres . |
| 5 | The operators ignored it as they were used to the odd US aircraft in the area . |
| 6 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 7 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 8 | ‘ Waddell says that the names Pat and Jimmy were used during the attack … it is no wonder the police were convinced that Griffiths and I were responsible . ’ |
| 9 | Wooden columns , often painted red , were used on a lavish scale in the temples , though less commonly in smaller buildings . |
| 10 | New exotic prestige goods were used on a much wider national and international scale contrasting with regional and local styles , which became more consciously preserved . |
| 11 | ( Hand mowers were used on the greens ) . |
| 12 | Anderson roofing felts were used on the NatWest Staff College at Heythorp Park |
| 13 | But here we could see for ourselves how timber-framed partition walls , filled in with brickwork , were used on the upper storeys over the larger rooms to ensure no weight pressed on their ceilings ; and how joiners had constructed the mahogany bookcases in the library . |
| 14 | The twelve modern ‘ boat-cars ’ were used on the Circular after their introduction in 1934 , but the War put a stop to this service . |
| 15 | For a while Ayrshire and Durham Shorthorn bulls were used on the Breton cows but the results were not worth while . |
| 16 | It was his original idea ; his recommendations were used on the ‘ look ’ , and he even recorded some special ‘ whoops ’ for it . |
| 17 | Light blue , No. 147 , and rose carmine , No. 124 , were used on the flower heads . |
| 18 | Screw steamers were used on the Hamburg run while paddlers continued on the coast . |
| 19 | In the second series , similar techniques were used on the postcecal colon and transit assessed two hours later . |
| 20 | Some 64,186 tonnes of insecticides were used on the republic 's cotton crops in 1975 ; this fell to 30,083 tonnes in 1985 , as the environmental implications of their use became evident , and to 2,586 tonnes in 1991 , following the end of the centrally planned system . |
| 21 | Traditional propaganda techniques centred on the newspaper press were used on an unprecedented scale : by 1917 four chateaux were being used as hotels for journalists and influential visitors to the front in northern France . |
| 22 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 23 | The refined heavy-atom parameters were used with the program MADABCD to generate phases and Hendrickson-Lattman phase probability coefficients . |
| 24 | At the beginning of the century , around 50 were used for a small number of functions . |
| 25 | They were used for a full ferreting season and instantly replaced the multiple-dig system . |
| 26 | Some of the earliest reinforcements were used for a counter-attack by Linsingen and Bohm-Ermolli on the northern edge of Brusilov 's offensive . |
| 27 | MSL were used for a variety of recruitment problems at various levels . |
| 28 | Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes . |
| 29 | In , all visual aids were used for a purpose . |
| 30 | For the band knitted for the club demonstration , six stitches were used for every buttonhole with ten stitches between each one . |