Example sentences of "[prep] [be] used [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Overt violence or other potentially injurious coercion is not to be used before noninjurious coercion has been exhausted ’ Bernard Berelson ( ex-President of the Population Council ) and Jonathan Lieberson |
| 2 | Out of necessity , some organic sprays may have to be used but this is avoided as much as possible . |
| 3 | Chafe ( 1977 ) maintains that the categorisation arises as a result of the experience itself , the needs of the discourse , and especially the centrality of the word to be used as indicative of the category . |
| 4 | Here the carcasses were skinned , the oil extracted from the bodies , and the meat turned into meal to be used as chicken-feed . |
| 5 | " There are some really wonderful foliage plants to be used and all those lovely shades of green are what you come back to — what you rely on . " |
| 6 | If one side , say the antimissile jamming device , pulled too far ahead in the design race , the other side , the missile in this case , would simply cease to be used and manufactured : it would go ‘ extinct ’ Far from being paradoxical like Alice 's original example , the Red Queen effect in its arms-race context turns out to be fundamental to the very idea of progressive advancement . |
| 7 | National Park Authorities should be given last resort compulsory purchase powers ( on a similar basis to Section 29 Orders ) to be used where voluntary agreements fail . |