Example sentences of "[adv] [be] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 3 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 4 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 5 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 6 | These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors . |
| 7 | Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are . |
| 8 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 9 | Example 58 , from Handel 's Messiah , is an early but outstanding example of a powerful accompaniment based on three rhythmic elements : Two elements only are used at first , the ‘ chord ’ rhythm of the upbeat quaver chord at the end of each bar , with its resolution on the first beat of the next bar , and then the higher quaver and semiquaver rhythm . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if several similar tables are to be compared , the same format must naturally be used for all of them . |
| 11 | Fibre-rich diets such as the F-Plan Diet are rated as acceptable , while very low-calorie diets , such as the Cambridge diet , should only be used under medical supervision . |
| 12 | Microscopes can only be used for close work , telescopes for viewing objects from arm 's length distance to infinity . |
| 13 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 14 | The trombones should only be used for such bass parts as suit them well . |
| 15 | True it is that ‘ a statement ’ by a person in response to a requirement under the section may only be used for one or other of the specified purposes , but there is no restriction upon the use by the prosecution of incriminating information or evidence obtained as a result of such a statement . |
| 16 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |
| 17 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 18 | The growth in the use of microcomputers in organizations means that people have become much less dependent on a central computer , which need only be used for large scale operations . |
| 19 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 20 | This method can only be used for non-porous and crystalline rocks ( particularly limestones ) , as the lead tends to be forced into any pores and , unlike powdered abrasives , it can not be washed away . |
| 21 | This can only be used with one or more floppy drives , and copies all the information from one disk to another . |
| 22 | 1974 ) and , of course , the procedure can only be used with those psychiatric patients for whom ECT has been chosen as the treatment of choice . |
| 23 | Soya based formulas should only be used with medical advice when a baby is known to be allergic to cow 's milk formula , as soya protein is just as allergenic as cow 's milk . |
| 24 | There were three filling stations side by side which could only be used with French credit cards , ’ said Mr Brown , a 48-year-old college lecturer , of Craven Vale . |
| 25 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 26 | Garlic , for example , must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin . |
| 27 | The expression " quasi-arbitrator " should only be used in that connection . |
| 28 | Punning , coining and wordplay are not immediately accessible to many readers ; and as sustained devices , they can only be used in written texts , not in everyday speech . |
| 29 | In ‘ Capital ’ Marx wrote that the ‘ immanent laws of capitalist production itself lead to ‘ the growth of the cooperative form of the labour process , the conscious technical application of science … the transformation of the means of labour into forms which can only be used in common , the economising of all means of production by their use as the means of production of combined , socialised labour ’ ( 1976 , p. 929 ) . |
| 30 | The use of this method in the mouse is currently in its infancy and since the procedure requires cells to pass through a round of replication in the presence of BrdU , it can only be used in cultured cells , which , because of the numbers required , are limited to third passage embryonic fibroblasts from pooled day 12 — IS embryos . |