Example sentences of "was [being] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you notice much difference in the sort of er erm the techniques or the machinery or whatever that was being used between ? |
| 2 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 3 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 4 | She was disappointed when he told her he was sorry but it was being used for band practice that day . |
| 5 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 6 | Blyth Valley objected to this , not on the grounds that industrial land was being used for non-manufacturing purposes , but because it wanted the site retained as a green belt . |
| 7 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |
| 8 | His association with Marius Steen had been the reason why Bloomwater was being used for the filming . |
| 9 | Cos up until then all the natural fibres were still being used , wool was being used for outer-wear , cotton was being used for underwear , cotton lisle . |
| 10 | Cos up until then all the natural fibres were still being used , wool was being used for outer-wear , cotton was being used for underwear , cotton lisle . |
| 11 | Therefore claims incurred where , for example , a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered . |
| 12 | If motorists could see that the tax was being used for that purpose , they would be much happier about paying it |
| 13 | Fender Bass VI The first Bass VI I remember seeing was being used on television by Jack Bruce , during a mimed performance of Strange Brewby Cream . |
| 14 | On appeal against conviction under the 1978 Construction and Use Regulations from the Humberside Justices sitting at Barton-upon-Humber , Stephen Brown LJ and Skinner J were asked to determine whether on the facts of the case a fork-lift truck , which had defective tyres and was being used on a road , was a motor vehicle for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1972 . |
| 15 | In Green v Burnett [ 1954 ] 3 All ER 273 it was held that an employer was guilty of ‘ using ’ , as a vehicle with defective brakes was being used on his business . |
| 16 | Nine of the seventeen original members resigned , claiming that the DHAC was being used to further the aims of a ‘ political group ’ . |
| 17 | Chainreaction ( as the Herald reported last week ) would be moving into the newly built extension , the cottage was being completely renovated and the centre was being used to nearly 90 percent of capacity . |
| 18 | The Leicestershire farms had a considerable amount of land rented on short-term leases : this land was being used at the time of the survey but might not be available in future years . |
| 19 | We had complaints that it was being used without permission . |
| 20 | Preoccupation with the squad was being used as a propaganda ramp for the IRA . |
| 21 | LIPHOOK Civil Service Retirement Fellowship met on election day at the village hall as their usual venue at Liphook Church Centre was being used as a polling station . |
| 22 | Toward the end of the year , we were given a holiday on a Thursday because the school was being used as a polling station for the General Election . |
| 23 | The owl was being used as bait . |
| 24 | I felt that I was being used as training fodder for this black policeman . |
| 25 | At one point where there were no buildings the rampart was being used as an archery butt . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Ceauşescu became convinced , in common with other East European states in hock to Western bankers , that credit was being used as a political weapon and that Reagan intended to finance his rearmament through the interest due on their loans . |
| 27 | She had already obtained a legal separation from her mother , claiming she was being used as a nursemaid for the baby in the family . |
| 28 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 29 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
| 30 | Director of social work Ian Baillie claimed the Kirk was being used as a ‘ punchball ’ between central and local government . |