Example sentences of "be used [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main tube has to run freely while suspended on the kiteline , so pulleys are used at each of its ends . |
| 2 | ALCLAD Glass Reinforced Gypsum ( GRG ) cladding and mouldings are used in many of today 's most spectacular interior design projects from themed shopping centres to the realization of the world 's most spectacular theme parks . |
| 3 | Similar devices are used in millions of homes . |
| 4 | They use a separate division called Franklin Learning Resources and claim that at least some products are used by each of over 4,000 school districts . |
| 5 | Minimum vacuum standards are used by most of the tube manufacturers today because they need tubes made as quickly and cheaply as possible . |
| 6 | Bolts have also been used on some of the wilder walls of Cheddar Gorge to establish , bolts notwithstanding , some of the most challenging climbs in the region . |
| 7 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 9 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |
| 10 | Procaine , the paracohlrophenoxy acetic ester of DNAE , has been used since 1905 as a safe local anaesthetic . |
| 11 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 12 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 13 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 14 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 15 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 16 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 17 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 18 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 19 | The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ . |
| 20 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 21 | RICO was originally intended for use against organized crime [ see p. 35503 ] , but had been used in 1988 in a number of financial malpractice cases including that of Drexel Burnham Lambert [ see below ] . |
| 22 | Chloroform had already been employed by Dr James Simpson , Professor of obstetrics at the University of Glasgow ; ether had first been used in 1846 by Dr Robert Liston for an operation at University College Hospital in London . |
| 23 | During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year . |
| 24 | So ‘ bureaucratic ’ pluralism has been used by some in recognizing the more important role of Japanese civil servants ; this has been further qualified as ‘ bureaucratic-inclusionary ’ pluralism to suggest that the widest possible range of citizen consultation is used to assess the national interest . |
| 25 | It can then be used with any of the needle-beds and their carriages that complete the system . |
| 26 | This software is available separately and could , therefore , be used with any of the file transfer systems . |
| 27 | ‘ Go As You Please ’ is just as it sounds , and with your unlimited 7-day bus pass and your 6 accommodation vouchers , which can be used at any of the Youth Hostels in Northern Ireland , you have the freedom to go where you want , when you want . |
| 28 | Like many other information sources , break-even analysis should preferably be used as one of several devices for obtaining an accurate picture of the business . |
| 29 | Magnetism may also be used during one of the longest migrations in the insect world . |
| 30 | Various computer assisted scanning devices have improved the results , and the European Community Haemangioma Working Party has stated that an argon laser should not be used without one of these devices or to treat children . |