Example sentences of "used [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 2 | The covenant , the breach of which is complained of , expressly forbids the tenant to permit the premises to be used for such a purpose … |
| 3 | It is n't an offence to inhale solvents but it is an offence to sell them in the knowledge that they will be used for such a purpose . ’ |
| 4 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |
| 5 | Shorter maturities are perhaps a little too volatile and respond to day-to-day liquidity conditions too readily to be used as such a guideline . |
| 6 | Both would be used until such a time as South Africa negotiated a non-racial democracy and adopted a new flag and anthem . |
| 7 | These assert that , under perfect competition , market forces will cause resources to be used in such a way that it is impossible to make somebody better off without making somebody else worse off — in this sense , perfect competition avoids waste . |
| 8 | Used in such a way , there is no requirement for electricity , telephones , mains water or drainage . |
| 9 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 10 | Of course , the sense of the danger to English studies from viewing literary texts as social , historical , or cultural " documents " reached back at least as far as Newbolt , and every subsequent suggestion that texts be used in such a way rekindled related anxieties . |
| 11 | For while " Socrates " might on occasion be deliberately turned into a general term — as happens , for example , in sentences like " He is another Socrates " — substance " can not be significantly used in such a way at all . |
| 12 | Where new technology can be used in such a way to reduce assets and lead times , it should be possible to establish reliable measures of investment benefits . |
| 13 | The latter two groups are used in such a way that , vertically , there are semitonal conflicts at almost every moment . |
| 14 | It remains to be seen whether this new power will be used in such a way as to augment the existing powers that the police enjoy to give directions to prevent the occurrence of a breach of the peace . |
| 15 | The name of ‘ Derrida ’ has been used in such a way as to imply that it refers to a real person who has certain ideas and theories which he has expressed in various books and essays , and which this introduction has tried to repeat , treating them as signifieds that can be represented in a number of different forms . |
| 16 | I did n't think it necessary to comment about that in my reply to that , in fact I have , I was speaking with er Mr when I saw this question down and reported it to him that his name was being used in such a way erm . |
| 17 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 18 | Language used in such a situation is primarily ‘ message oriented ’ . |
| 19 | She says we 're very pleased , we 're trained for this.We feel that it 's excellent that our expertise can be used in such a situation . |
| 20 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 21 | LADY DAVERS : Is my kinsman to be thus used by such a slut ? |