Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] use [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 2 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 3 | Lymphocytes from peripheral blood , obtained before any blood transfusion , were also used as a source of constitutional ( normal ) DNA . |
| 4 | Researchers were also used in a ‘ mystery shopper ’ exercise to check how branches coped with particular problems and inquiries . |
| 5 | Armed police went to the hotel shortly before 7am to make the arrests , and sniffer dogs were later used in a search of the premises . |
| 6 | They were also , since they were increasingly used by a small but important educated public , a link between diplomacy and the wider social world in which it operated . |
| 7 | There is a stark contrast and , indeed , contradiction between the crowded hanging of the exhibition , at times reminiscent of a dealer 's show , and the permanent and elegant arrangements of the rooms of the second piano nobile of Palazzo Spinola , which provide a far more convincing picture of how paintings were actually used in a Genoese palace . |
| 8 | The upgraded system was successfully used on a cable-route survey across the Irish Sea for a commercial client . |
| 9 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 10 | Galecron ( the brand name for the formulation , chlordimeform ) was widely used as a pesticide before it was taken off the market briefly in 1976 after it was found to increase tumours in mice . |
| 11 | The adaptive expectations mechanism was widely used as a formal representation of this process of expectations revision . |
| 12 | Indeed the adjustable peg system was operated in such a way that the exchange rate was rarely used as a means of adjustment , and import restrictions were not allowed under the Bretton Woods agreement . |
| 13 | Thus the Lamia was long used as a BOGIE to frighten naughty children . |
| 14 | Aircraft landing at LG 05 were seen and a recce of LG 121 confirmed that it was only used as a decoy at night . |
| 15 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |
| 16 | Indeed , the Cabinet was scarcely used as a forum of discussion in foreign policy , although Eden kept Ministers informed at all times . |
| 17 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 18 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 19 | THE Costa villa where David Mellor stayed was once used by a child-kidnapper during a £9 million ransom plot . |
| 20 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 21 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 22 | Blakeney Upper Mill was always used as a corn mill . |
| 23 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 24 | He was standing in the room which was still used as a library , his ruddy face stern and bewhiskered under the sprouting plumes of his hat , his braided , be-medalled tunic fastened with a row of gilt buttons . |
| 25 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |
| 26 | As at Godmanchester , it was probably used as a collection and storage point . |
| 27 | They are , however , most closely associated with the Russian town of Bokhara , which was traditionally used as a marketing centre for their wares , and today any item employing a gul design is generally referred to as a Bokhara rug . |
| 28 | There was a torn squab cushion on the top and it was traditionally used as a place to dump coats , scarves and gloves . |
| 29 | He goes on to suggest that the ‘ mixture of bull-running , tipling and popery ’ was later used as a pretence by Edward VI to suppress the entire medieval guild system . |
| 30 | Although not further modified , No. 19 was later used as a breakdown towing car at Sutton depôt , still in full livery , but delicensed , with most of the paper advertisements peeling off . |