Example sentences of "[be] used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 2 | We 're used to the sharp cracks of lightning and the belch of thunder issuing from the belly of the sky . |
| 3 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 4 | You 're used to the little ones over this area though are n't you ? |
| 5 | Poles : five alloy poles of which four are used for the inner . |
| 6 | They are used for the final stages when working down a tilth and levelling the surface once the large clods and turf have been broken . |
| 7 | Tractors are used for the twelve months you see but not a combine . |
| 8 | The alcoves on either side are used for the hanging space , and the reduced space in front of the chimneybreast for shelving , either exposed or concealed behind the wardrobe doors . |
| 9 | PURPOSE GROWN TIMBERS from North America , Scandinavia and Italy are used for the wooden kitchen ranges |
| 10 | If the three colours are used for the whole fabric , the length of floats and buildup of these on the wrong side of the work can be a problem . |
| 11 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 12 | 30-Gauge Luer lock metal needles ( Holborn Surgical Instruments Co Ltd ) are used with the bevelled ends cut flat and the ends polished . |
| 13 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |
| 14 | It places a great responsibility upon us to ensure that the children of Sunderland are given the very best possible value-for-money meals , while also ensuring that public funds are used to the best effect . |
| 15 | We are used to the traditional emphasis placed in Christian teaching on the transcendence of God , on His detachment from the world which He has created . |
| 16 | We are used to the Labour party believing that it can talk up its support by talking the country down . |
| 17 | Wedges are used under the former to get the vertical position exactly right . |
| 18 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 19 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 20 | However , big is not always beautiful , and often having two smaller models which are used at the real point of use in a catering establishment can give greater flexibility and be more cost-effective . |
| 21 | Quantum 's QBENCH replicates the way that disk drives are used in the real world by combining the same portions of random and sequential read-and-write operations that are found in modern Operating System and Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) environments such as Windows . |
| 22 | In practice , the proprietary liquids which are used in the pressure-vacuum impregnation of timber against fungal attack also contain insecticides and effectively identical products are available through builders ' merchants and DIY outlets for brush and spray application on site . |
| 23 | So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place . |
| 24 | But drift gill-nets ( which are not fixed ) present a much greater entanglement hazard for the tucuxi , since they are used in the deep main river channels rarely frequented by the boto . |
| 25 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 26 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 27 | The next pair are the training straps , which are used in the early stages to accustom sailors to footstrap use . |
| 28 | Although in everyday professional speech the phrase the in-service training of teachers ( INSET ) is often used to denote formal courses operated collectively with groups of teachers , this view of INSET must be perceived as too limited to describe the many practices which are used in the professional development of teachers ( Gordon and Lawton 1978 , Becher and Maclure 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Checklists are used in the pre-start mode , for routine maintenance and for fault-finding . |
| 30 | Darker colours are used in the remaining five colourways , derived from an adaptation of the Damask style , again influenced by the Silks of Lyons . |