Example sentences of "[was/were] used [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explosives were therefore concentrated on one pier , while the balance were used to blow up a small bridge over the Ginestra , a tributary of the Tragino , over which repair traffic would have to come . |
| 2 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 3 | Watkins believed that natural markers were used to set out the ley system . |
| 4 | A jet and two hose reels were used to put out the flames . |
| 5 | Dogs were used to put down a land reform demonstration outside the National Congress in Asunción on June 23 , 1989 ; 10 people were injured in what was the first major use of force since RodrÃguez had seized power . |
| 6 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 7 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 8 | I did n't have a hairbrush but a long pole that was used to open up the attic hatch . |
| 9 | Fewer digits were repeated when the right rather than the left hand was used to carry out a tracking task . |
| 10 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 11 | This information was used to gross up the values declared by respondents to give estimates of exports for all exporting companies in Grampian . |