Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve the extremely low power consumption , D-fet active loads were used with gate widths of only 5mm . |
| 2 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 3 | During one practical session when the kitchens were used for survey purposes , booklice were actually found in the flour storage bins . |
| 4 | Standard procedures were used for plasmid DNA manipulations ( 13 ) . |
| 5 | Bovis Homes points out that the exterior and lobby area were used for location shots , but not the interiors . |
| 6 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 7 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 8 | In Medieval times rivers were used for water supply and to power mills as well as for navigation . |
| 9 | Thus , 11 samples were used for adenylate cyclase , nine for cAMP , six for guanylate cyclase , and six for cGMP determination in the untreated patients . |
| 10 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 11 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 12 | Mantel-Haenszel weights were used for summary risk ratio estimates . |
| 13 | Opponents argued that the cellars were used for punishment purposes , and Special Branch alleged that a man had been seriously wounded by a knife in the stomach after horseplay between fascists at Black House . |
| 14 | Also his combings were used for Merchant Seamen . ’ |
| 15 | Galleries were used for display purposes also . |
| 16 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 17 | But this was , after all , business , as many of the rooms were used for room sets and photographic sessions . |
| 18 | She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback by breed and I resist the urgings of trendy ideologues who would rename these dogs which were used for lion hunting in East Africa . |
| 19 | It is recorded that galleries were used at election times by prospective M.P.s stating their case at Ambleside and Ravenstonedale and , no doubt , at other places as well . |
| 20 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 21 | JACOB 'S LADDER ( Guild ) Freaked-out Vietnam vets get together and discover they were used as government guinea pigs during the war . |
| 22 | For this reason , eales were used as temple guardians to ward off evil spirits and looters . |
| 23 | Therefore , the modal ratios of each township type , that is , those which appeared most consistently , were used as multiplier factors ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 24 | The 28S and 18S ribosomal RNAs were used as size markers . |
| 25 | The human cancer cells from the cell line colo 205 that expressed colonic antigens detected by anticolon antibody positive serum was used as the target cells and PBMCs from healthy controls were used as effector cells . |
| 26 | Two points on the spine were used as bridle attachments and a third at the cross-spar connection to the leading edge . |
| 27 | For determination of immunoglobulin secreting cells the wells were coated with antihuman IgA , IgG , and IgM , and to determine the number of specific antibody secreting cells , beta lactoglobulin , casein , and gliadin were used as coating antigens . |
| 28 | K-562 cells ( 1×10 5 /ml ) labelled with 5 1 Cr were used as target cells . |
| 29 | 5 1 Cr labelled Daudi cells ( 1×10 5 /ml ) were used as target cells ; PBMCs ( 2×10 6 /ml ) were incubated with 1000 U of IL2 for two days and then cultured with the 5 1 Cr labelled target cells for four hours . |
| 30 | While that was a brilliant evocation of living by your wits in or near a New York gutter , which pushed out several boundaries — largely sexual — in relation to the old Hollywood code of conduct , there was a degree of tameness in comparison to the anti-heroes created in Easy Rider ; Fonda , Hopper and especially Nicholson were used as role models for many future films , and thus it broke new ground . |