Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Face it , Jo , you were a nut to use that subway ! |
| 2 | The only thing she could think of was a request to use the lavatory , but that would tell her little beyond the colour of Veronica 's bathroom suite . |
| 3 | Scott and James McCalman said at the time that it was a stone used for making charcoal after the following fashion . |
| 4 | Even then , however , there was a preference to use the general subsidies for new suburban houses while ever these remained in force . |
| 5 | Paradise was a word used for the Garden of Eden . |
| 6 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 7 | Another said Weizenbier was a term used by ignorant Franconians ( to the north ) . |
| 8 | It was a term used by common soldiers — men who had shared a tent , a bowl of meat , or the last of the wine . |
| 9 | The lobon-gur solution described above was a prototype used by BRAC in the late 1970s in a pilot programme which lasted 12 months . |
| 10 | It was a cupboard used by the cleaners that contained a number of other odds and ends . |
| 11 | He says that this was a cell used for patients in the early days of the hospital . |
| 12 | Above , on the ceiling , was a network used for ‘ small travelling requisites . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Nice things ’ Ianthe had and it was a pleasure to use them . |
| 14 | It was a tool used by farriers to Pare the hoof of a horse and known as a butteris , buttress or buttrace . |
| 15 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 16 | It was a power used locally as well . |
| 17 | The mace , or goedendag , was a weapon used throughout Europe up to the sixteenth century . |
| 18 | ‘ Art history without names ’ was a phrase used by Heinrich Wölflinn , in his introduction to The Principles of Art History first published in 1915 . |
| 19 | The ‘ First Gentleman of Europe ’ was a phrase used of George IV when Prince Regent . |
| 20 | She has a fair amount of control over her work ; ‘ being one 's own boss ’ was a phrase used by over half the sample . |