Example sentences of "was used [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 2 | With the designation came additional finance which was used to support a number of initiatives including a series of two term temporary posts for McGregor staff to engage in some pilot planning work . |
| 3 | This grant was used to support a conference and other media through which general and specific aspects of European integration , convergence and divergence in work and employment systems would be more widely known , and seen as relevant for future research , by British social scientists . |
| 4 | The No 4 Steam Dredger , now part of the museum 's collection of vessels , was used to scrape a trench for cables leading from the Castle Meads power station at Gloucester . |
| 5 | Because the junction of a pair of roundels produces a triangular interstitial space internally as well as externally , one of two such internal areas was used to accommodate a WC , which is reached from an intermediate landing of the staircase ( Fig 41 and Plate 17 ) . |
| 6 | on first-year pharmacy students at Ohio State University , where pre- and post-testing was used to evaluate a tape/slide on reference books . |
| 7 | Anyway , in each ditty the name of the country was used to finish a rhyme . |
| 8 | Resistant propionibacteria were detected by rubbing facial skin with a moistened swab , which was used to inoculate a series of plates containing selective antibiotics . |
| 9 | The term was used to signify a right of way between one place and another , rather than a physical entity defined by roadside verges with pavings underfoot . |
| 10 | CASE STUDY 5.3 — MRS J. In this second case a family meeting was used to help a family give an uncomfortable message . |
| 11 | This is the van that was used to ram a police car . |
| 12 | This information was used to construct a profile of each practice . |
| 13 | This test was used to ensure a 100% death rate of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen . |
| 14 | On the day of study , endoscopy was used to place a manometry catheter into the transverse colon and intraluminal pressure was recorded for more than four hours . |
| 15 | Clay was used to make a range of items ranging from loom-weights to the unique clay figure from Spong Hill ( Hills 1980a ) , but pottery vessels are the most frequent . |
| 16 | The excavated earth was used to make a parapet in front of the trench and a reredos behind it ; the front was further protected by barbed wire entanglements of varying depth and complexity . |