Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operators ignored it as they were used to the odd US aircraft in the area . |
| 2 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 3 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 4 | For a while Ayrshire and Durham Shorthorn bulls were used on the Breton cows but the results were not worth while . |
| 5 | But here we could see for ourselves how timber-framed partition walls , filled in with brickwork , were used on the upper storeys over the larger rooms to ensure no weight pressed on their ceilings ; and how joiners had constructed the mahogany bookcases in the library . |
| 6 | In the second series , similar techniques were used on the postcecal colon and transit assessed two hours later . |
| 7 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 8 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 9 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 10 | Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis . |
| 11 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 12 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 13 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 14 | The serum samples from patients with high cytotoxic activity were used for the subsequent ADCC assay . |
| 15 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 16 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 17 | EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical . |
| 18 | Double-deckers were used for the maximum impact , including the historic Dreadnought , in 1964 . |
| 19 | Phosphatase inhibitors were used at the following concentrations . |
| 20 | Phosphatidyl choline species composed of various acyl fatty acids in the sn-1 and sn-2 positions were used as the sole phosphlipid in otherwise identical model bile solutions . |
| 21 | After 1981 , the Securitate and other security forces were used as the prime means of settling industrial disputes and demonstrations . |
| 22 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 23 | Male Wistar rats ( 250 g ) were used as the experimental animal . |
| 24 | The dividends received on the shares were used towards the partial repayment of the loan . |
| 25 | Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround . |
| 26 | Twin barrel-vault roofs formed from Broderick Structures ' Brodseam were used in the new Imperium building in Reading , by Bennetts Associates ( RIBA Journal July ) . |
| 27 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 28 | However , surely if they were used in the right situations , then they could be extremely useful ? |
| 29 | Obscenity laws were used in the 1920s to ban Radclyffe Hall 's book , The Well of Loneliness . |
| 30 | — Peter Greenfield still has nightmares every time he visits a hospital , reliving the moments when he and his twin sister Miriam were used in the unspeakable experiments of Dr Mengele in Auschwitz . |