Example sentences of "used [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 2 | There are two common notes in this phrase : A , the 6th in C and the 3rd in F , is used for the first change ( bars 1 and 2 ) ; whilst E , the 3rd in C and maj7th in F , is used for the second ( bars 2 and 3 ) … |
| 3 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 4 | Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time . |
| 5 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 6 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 7 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 9 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 12 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 13 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 14 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 15 | The sum of these two numbers together will allow you to choose the most important and characteristic symptoms of the case which should be used for the next step . |
| 16 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 17 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 18 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 19 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 20 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 21 | And which have you used during the last year ? |
| 22 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 24 | Native ( natural metallic ) copper was probably first used about the eighth millennium BC. and the earliest smelted metals , copper and lead , date from the fifth or sixth millennium BC . |
| 25 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |
| 26 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 27 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 29 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 30 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |