Example sentences of "[am/are] being used [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich . |
| 2 | A small group ( two bulls and six heifers ) was exported to an English agricultural college in 1988 on an experimental basis , and here it was described as looking rather like a South Devon or a beefy Jersey ; the bulls are being used on the college 's Friesian dairy herd to produce beef calves . |
| 3 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 4 | They are being used as the ‘ guinea pigs ’ of inner space exploration ! |
| 5 | Here they are being used as the main character in a popular advert . |
| 6 | Road checks have been set up , and police dogs are being used in the hunt . |
| 7 | Many toxins , such as snake venoms , operate through the victim 's nervous system and are being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders . |
| 8 | The Performa line for the consumer market is selling strongly , and it is now in 2,300 retail outlets , up from 1,300 last October — and over 90% of the Performa computers are being used in the home , he added . |
| 9 | Therefore , it was the offensive school which won the procurement battle , and it is these new offensive technologies which are being used in the Gulf war . |
| 10 | Large numbers of microcomputers are currently being introduced into primary schools , and as yet there is little knowledge of how these machines are being used in the classroom , or how the teachers themselves view the use of this technology in primary education . |
| 11 | Remotely-sensed data from the French SPOT satellite ( Chapter 5 ) are being used in the third study to augment the cartographic data layers . |
| 12 | Hedge clippings from a country estate are being used in the fight against cancer . |
| 13 | The British Government have a special responsibility in this matter , because British manufacture cluster bombs are being used by the Yugoslav air force , which is de facto a Serbian air force , to attack civilian targets . |
| 14 | A less common type is some act or omission of the seller u nder the contract which lays the buyer open to legal action from third parties ( for instance because goods which have been negligently manufactured injure a third party while they are being used by the buyer ) . |