Example sentences of "[adv] used [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speech is normally used in face to face interaction whereas writing is used across barriers of space and time . |
| 2 | Figures are shown separately for Interview Style — the rather careful speech used in direct response to the fieldworker 's questions- and for a more spontaneous style not used in response to questions and often not addressing the fieldworker . |
| 3 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 4 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 5 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 6 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 7 | Being ‘ sold a pup ’ at fair was also used in reference to a pig . |
| 8 | Sex is more like eating than breathing in this regard — and interestingly , the word " appetite " is often used in relation to both activities . |
| 9 | The words ‘ dependent ’ and ‘ independent ’ are frequently used with reference to elderly people . |
| 10 | Previously , the Church had been usually defined as a ‘ society ’ ( even a juridically ‘ perfect society ’ ) , a term taken to imply the primary need for authority , and frequently used in relation to the state . |
| 11 | Restrictive covenants are sometimes used in relation to the future use of licensed premises . |
| 12 | In April 1980 , for example , Andrei Gromyko noted that the word ‘ neutral ’ was sometimes used in relation to resolving the question of Afghanistan . |
| 13 | A device commonly used in relation to Government privatisations . |
| 14 | There is no question that we normally accept that both " the same A " and " a different A " can be significantly used in relation to ontological existents . |