Example sentences of "was used [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 2 | Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards . |
| 3 | An outer cylinder of platinum was used as the anode , with a rod of palladium on its axis as the cathode . |
| 4 | Miller and Holzman ( 1981 ) were aware of this possible problem with their procedure and conducted a further study in which a smaller dose of LiCl was used as the US . |
| 5 | It was used as the Library of Culture for the Communist Party and is now the teachers , training faculty of the University . |
| 6 | When an unpleasant sharp sound was used as the ‘ punishment ’ , the second group , who had the more difficult discrimination to make , learned much less efficiently and became anxious and disorganized . |
| 7 | Despite these deficiencies , tobacco was used as the main type of money in Virginia State , USA , during the late 1700s . |
| 8 | ‘ Precatory ’ neither ( as in English law ) implied caution about the clarity of intention , nor was used as the touchstone for deciding whether a disposition was a trust . |
| 9 | The property included all of the land now occupied by Prestwick International Airport and , until it was demolished about 1965 , his mansion house was used as the airport hotel and reception area for about 25 years . |
| 10 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 11 | Yorkshire had a considerable hand in the birth of teddy bears as Yorkshire cloth or mohair was used as the main material . |
| 12 | To prevent this from running down on-to the rest of the body and the swaddling clothes , it was immediately covered by a narrow linen band known as the ‘ chrysom ’ ; and it was the custom , should a child die before it was one month old , that this chrysom was used as the head-covering to the funerary swaddling . |
| 13 | Anaplasma marginale was used as the outgroup . |
| 14 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 15 | For each outcome the average interclass correlation across the four study groups was used as the estimate for ρ . |
| 16 | This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants . |
| 17 | Otto Freundlich , whose powerful Cubist ‘ Neuer Mensch ’ was used as the cover illustration for the catalogue of the Nazi show , was resident in Paris from the mid-Twenties . |
| 18 | In March 1972 a drawing of one was used as the cover of Playboy Magazine . |
| 19 | Plasma insulin concentration was measured in duplicate by radioimmunoassay with a charcoal absorption step to separate bound from free insulin ; Novo Human MC Insulin was used as the standard ( Novo Research Laboratories , Bagsvaerd , Denmark ) and Wellcome RD 10 guinea pig antiporcine insulin antiserum ( Wellcome Research Laboratories , Beckenham , Kent ) and insulin labelled with iodine-125 ( Amersham International , Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) as tracer . |
| 20 | In the discussion of data structures earlier in the chapter , it was stated that a lexicon , derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries , was used as the ultimate reference in the indexing process . |
| 21 | A collocation dictionary of 7,130 entries was produced ( after tidying and removal of empty entries ) , and this was used as the source of semantic knowledge in the overlap program . |
| 22 | In a collection of 446 patients angioplasty was used as the only therapy to open the vessel . |
| 23 | It owes its name to the fact that it was used as the floor covering at the coronation of Frederik IV in 1699 , and that of all subsequent absolute kings . |
| 24 | The French capital was used as the starting point for all the races and the first , from Paris to Rouen , was organized by the Paris newspaper Le Petit Journal in 1894 with a £200 prize on offer . |
| 25 | Residence in England was used as the test in some cases such as Sill v. Worswick ( 1791 ) 1 H.Bl. 665 and Ex parte Ormiston ; In re Distin ( 1871 ) 24 L.T. 197 . |
| 26 | Similar conclusions applied if the rate of return on capital was used as the yardstick of profitability . |
| 27 | However , when spot volatility was used as the proxy , there was some evidence of a maturity effect . |
| 28 | The proxy for the rate of information arrival ( volume or spot volatility ) had a positive effect on all measures of volatility , as predicted , particularly when spot volatility was used as the proxy . |
| 29 | When no periodontal disease was used as the referent category the adjusted relative risks for coronary heart disease were 0.79 ( 0.58 to 1.08 ) for gingivitis , 1.29 ( 0.87 to 1.70 ) for periodontitis , and 1.33 ( 1.02 to 1.73 ) for no teeth . |
| 30 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |