Example sentences of "[pron] be use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 2 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 3 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 4 | I 'm used to that . |
| 5 | I 'm used to that . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh — I 'm used to that , I 'm used to being criticized , despised . |
| 7 | I 'm used to all that by now . |
| 8 | I 'm used to hard work , ’ Tess insisted . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 'm used to three big meals a day . |
| 10 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 11 | ‘ I was used to that at Glasgow Rangers . |
| 12 | ‘ They were very interested in me , but I was used to that from men . |
| 13 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 14 | They are simply a recording of a band 's live or alternative versions of their songs , which are used for one or two broadcasts . |
| 15 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 16 | Among other interesting observations from the study is the similarity of the Flemish and Walloon Sign Languages , the sign languages which are used by deaf people who belong to different spoken language communities in Belgium . |
| 17 | Images which are used by most young women as their role models and from looking at how the media presents women influences directly their own expectations of themselves . |
| 18 | More interestingly , there are terms which are used in everyday English , but which have more precise meanings or quite different connotations in technical discussion , e.g. : language , accent , dialect , pidgin , creole , non-standard . |
| 19 | The figures which are used in this report could be juggled in varying ways . |
| 20 | For a fuller account of tensors , particularly the more general covariant and contravariant tensors which are used in non-Euclidean geometries , the books by Schouten ( 1954 ) , McConnell ( 1957 ) and Eringen ( 1976 ) may be consulted . |
| 21 | Likewise , concepts which are used in abstract glossaries of urban regeneration good practice need to be examined in practice before they can be accepted as universally applicable . |
| 22 | But Althusser 's example indicates that there can also be contradictions between aspects of one practice , such as the methods of production which are used in urban and in rural districts , between social groups , for example different factions of a ruling class , and between aspects of two societies , such as the contradictions thrown up by foreign policy . |
| 23 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 24 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 25 | Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service . |
| 26 | Brabin J. commented on the site chosen for the defendant 's premises which were used for fat rendering , an offensive trade . |
| 27 | Conversion of the Manchester-Hadfield stub of the old Woodhead route from 1,500V DC operation to standard 25kV kissed goodbye to the eight 1954 Class 506s , ninety-two of which were used on Great Eastern services until 1982 . |
| 28 | So far we have considered man-made materials where the composition reflects the processing , but the composition of materials such as stones and gems , which were used without chemical modification , can also sometimes indicate their source , and thereby the authenticity of artefacts made from them . |
| 29 | ONE OF THE experimental bounding bombs devised by Barnes Wallis , later version of which were used by 617 Squadron in the famous Dambuster attack on the Mohne , Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany on May 16 , 1943 , was raised from the seabed off Chesil Beach , Dorset on Wednesday September 30 . |
| 30 | It was argued above that , while it in some way reflects the truth about the wordings which were used in classical law , it was not employed as the touchstone by which new wordings were tried . |