Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This left Aberystwyth packed and buses were used past Newtown .
2 Senior management posts in nationalized industries were used under Franco to reward politicians and military men for services rendered to the regime ( Medhurst 1973 : 164 ) .
3 Seven states have completely banned hypnotised witness from testifying and one allows such testimony only if presumed safeguards such as video-taping were used during hypnosis .
4 Cold-chain monitors were used during shipment and storage .
5 New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud .
6 In the Blackpool fleet , they became Nos. 93–98 ‘ , and were used on Layton as well as the Promenade , until 1933 .
7 Non-parametric methods were used with significance determined at the 5% level .
8 To achieve the extremely low power consumption , D-fet active loads were used with gate widths of only 5mm .
9 Phases calculated as described ( Table 1 ) were used with amplitudes from the λ 1 data to generate electron density maps using the CCP4 suite of programs .
10 ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’
11 The report also mentioned contamination problems during the manufacture of the anti-allergic eye product Opticrom and suggests that ‘ beer kegs ’ were used for storage during the manufacture of Imferon , an injectable iron .
12 The ground-floor rooms were used for storage , cooking and other work : from them stairways rose to the living and sleeping quarters upstairs .
13 These arches were used for storage .
14 But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries .
15 Locomotives were used for goods , and passenger trains were pulled by horses at first ( on the same tracks ) .
16 Under Somoza , there were scarcely any official prisons as such ; rather , the National Guard command posts were used for detention .
17 They argue that long-term technological changes mean that manufacturing needs more space per worker , and also often larger plots , and that this both puts cities at a disadvantage in relation to other areas and means that , even if all available urban land were used for manufacturing , there would still be a decline in employment .
18 During one practical session when the kitchens were used for survey purposes , booklice were actually found in the flour storage bins .
19 III were used for accumulation in Dept .
20 ( The cases all concern referees known as " valuers " , but the same difficulty could arise with experts if the umpire procedure were used for experts , which modern practice has made rare : see 9.8.2 . )
21 Separate questionnaires were used for mothers and fathers .
22 Whilst the costs of conservation can be measured relatively easily ( for example , the direct costs of site management or the production possibilities if the land were used for agriculture or forestry ) , there are almost no tangible measures of the benefits of conservation .
23 Modern economics and technology have created a throw-away society based on costs and profits , and the days when only best quality woods were used for joinery are long gone .
24 Standard procedures were used for plasmid DNA manipulations ( 13 ) .
25 Bovis Homes points out that the exterior and lobby area were used for location shots , but not the interiors .
26 Twenty-five cycles were used to amplify K1 mRNA and 30 cycles were used for I-A α -chain and E-cadherin mRNAs .
27 The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick .
28 ( The women also had tusks , so that I wondered if they were used for offence or defence .
29 Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills .
30 Balloon tamponade ( Linton tube ) and vasoactive drugs ( vasopressin ) were used for haemorrhage which persisted despite sclerotherapy ( four cases ) .
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