Example sentences of "used [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 2 | But they have requested the two-storey shop units in Clark 's Yard are not used for the same type of shops already there , to prevent competition for existing business . |
| 3 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 4 | Radio programmes or ‘ talking book ’ tape recordings can be used for the same purpose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Following questions in Parliament , the Department of Trade and Industry announced last October that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading UK export controls , and would be restricted . |
| 7 | On 17 October , Mr Sainsbury announced — ‘ in the light of publicity ’ — that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading export control . |
| 8 | This mode is carried forward from the 1954 Convention , and it is expressly provided that ‘ if exceptional circumstances so require ’ diplomatic channels may be used for the same purpose . |
| 9 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
| 10 | Sometimes a donkey would be used for the same purpose . |
| 11 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 12 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |
| 13 | For example , the following terms may all be used for the same object : Eyeglasses , Spectacles , Glasses . |
| 14 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 15 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 16 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 17 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 18 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 19 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 20 | The substitution items need to be of the same class , so they can be used with the same frame . |
| 21 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 22 | It figures , therefore , that freed from a line controlling its movements a ferret can work much more freely and quickly — and a number of muzzled ferrets can be used within the same burrow system at the same time . |
| 23 | Can contingent rewards and punishers be used within the same intervention ? |
| 24 | Can be used within the same intervention . |
| 25 | Can not be used within the same intervention . |
| 26 | The only even superficially attractive argument from the names in favour of his view is the implicit one that " Fenari-oglu " is used in the former case but not in the latter . |
| 27 | The approach to needs assessment used in the former RSG has been described as ‘ a brilliant device provided one does not inquire too closely into what it means ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 28 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 29 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 30 | Simultaneously a dozen Greek newspapers were being financed by British money , which was also used in the same year to set up a pro-British magazine in Japan . |