Example sentences of "which [was/were] used [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World .
3 Changed circumstances began to alter the criteria which were used for the selection and appointment of heads .
4 Now between during the period from the decision of Mr Justice in March nineteen ninety one and the issue of the sealed order in May nineteen ninety three , it 's clear from correspondence which has been put before me that there were er various negotiations and discussions between the solicitors for the plaintiff and the defendant dealing with the questions of costs and also with the question of a general settlement of the whole action , er it would be appreciated of course that Mr Justice order does not have the effect of determining finally the rights of the parties , erm other than the partnership has in fact dissolved because there were still outstanding issues in particular relating to the premises which were used as the surgery of the premises of the part of the prac of the practice or perhaps I should say former practice .
5 I had n't the remotest idea , but I followed the little rails which were used by the tiny railway to carry food up to the dining rooms …
6 Here there are many quintas which were used by the wealthy Funchal merchants in the summer months .
7 In the later work , The Ego and the Id , the instinct theory of psychoanalysis had changed from the two instincts — sexual instincts and ego instincts — which were used in the paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ .
8 In table 9.8 are shown some examples of the changes in unit costs which were used in the GRE formulae over the short period from 1983/4 to 1986/7 .
9 On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area .
10 Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid .
11 The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index .
12 Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues .
13 There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often .
14 ( A frog horn is a gas-powered small-craft warning which was used at the melin to get Nigel down from the millpond to the telephone .
15 Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards .
16 It would be more correct to say that something which was used as the target has changed , for the " target " is a subjective designation and does not change until management decides to change it .
17 It is widely believed that the mines also produced gold which was used in the crowns of Scotland 's kings .
18 This expression replaces the phrase " excisable liquor " which was used in the 1959 Act , and is defined in s.139(1) .
19 Cassia , or Chinese cinnamon , is another spice which was used in the past , and is interchangeable with cinnamon in recipes .
20 The interview technique has been designed to stimulate discussion of the topic in question with as little prompting as possible , again justifying the phrase which was used in the title of the report of the previous project : ‘ Transport decision-makers speak ’ .
21 The ammonium salt was dissolved in H 2 O , adjusted to pH 9.5 with NaOH , and passed through a column of ion exchange resin ( Diaion HP 20 , Mitsubishi Chemical Industries , Japan ) to give the sodium salt of PABA-UDCA disulphate , which was used in the reported experiments .
22 , Swedish scientists have called attention to the large amount of halon gas , hundreds of times more damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs , which was used in the gulf war .
23 And later in the war , in 1943 , it was this imposing natural wall of shingle which was used by the famous Dambusters as a practice target before their attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany .
24 Adhesives can be either rubber solution glue or egg white , which was used by the Victorians , and I think it is still the best option as it does not mark the leaves and flowers — commercial glues do after a time .
25 Immediately before Hitler 's invasion of Poland Knox went with A. G. Denniston [ q.v. ] , the head of GC and CS , to a secret base at Pyry , where he was shown a reconstruction of the Enigma cipher machine , which was used by the Germans .
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