Example sentences of "was used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child required and was used to cooked food . |
| 2 | A second set of oligonucleotides , envSfifor ( 5'-TTT GAT CTC GAG CTC CTG CAG GGC CGG CTG GGC CGC ACT GGA GCC GGG CGA AGC AGT-3' , complementary to MoMLV env nts 5893-5873 with a 36nt 5' overhang encoding a SfiI site and 21nt complementary to the 5' tail of envNotrev ) and revMLVpol ( 5'-AAT TAC ATT GTG CAT ACA GAC CC-3' , complementary to MoMLV pol nts 5277-5249 ) was used to prime amplification of a 702bp fragment from pCRIP ( and encoding upstream of env codon 7 ) . |
| 3 | Herbal Ribbon Gel was used to slick hair and add gloss without making it stiff and sticky . |
| 4 | Jonadab was used to implicit obedience . |
| 5 | RD users include Chris Novoselic of Nirvana and the Mission 's Craig Adams , to whom this particular specimen belongs , and on whose early tours and recordings it was used to great effect , before it was trashed at a gig in 1987 . |
| 6 | She was used to that . |
| 7 | ‘ I was used to that at Glasgow Rangers . |
| 8 | His life seemed worthless — he was used to that — but there seemed to be nothing at all to contain it . |
| 9 | He sounded so utterly unlike the Leo she thought she was used to that she automatically obeyed . |
| 10 | ‘ They were very interested in me , but I was used to that from men . |
| 11 | So it was n't just the joy , he was used to that , this was something over and above that . |
| 12 | Yeah I bet you do because it was used to that and then you stuck in one place . |
| 13 | Afterwards , Mr Major said he was used to political turbulence and the ‘ rough and tumble ’ . |
| 14 | Continual assessment and updating of instructors would ensure that the limited time available for training was used to best effect . |
| 15 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 16 | His camel got a move on , was used to dusty land . |
| 17 | She was used to draughty spaces , soaring walls , a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter . |
| 18 | The SSM is only one part of the total FAOR package , and as such was used to good effect to identify and select a specific problem area in the client organisation , and to complement the other analytical instruments . |
| 19 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 20 | Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved . |
| 21 | Both works have slow movements of exquisite and radiant beauty ( that of K.467 was used to memorable effect in the film Elvira Madigan ) . |
| 22 | He was used to heavier controls than this , but an hour 's practice would make all the difference . |
| 23 | Sir Matthew said that Glasgow-based Hewden Stuart was used to difficult times . |
| 24 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 25 | Johnson was used to red cards , but this particular coupon was to signal a different kind of brush with authority , a sign that the player had been selected for a random dope test . |
| 26 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 27 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 28 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 29 | The Imperial was used to large banquets , but the added responsibility of the Prince of Wales made molehills into mountains . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's quite large for around here , ’ the woman told her , and , even though it was nowhere near as large as Leith 's present flat , nor in the area that she was used to either , she was in a ‘ beggars ca n't be choosers ’ situation . |