Example sentences of "they [verb] be used " in BNC.
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| 1 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 2 | The notions of excellence they embody are used to fortify and legitimize the sacred and profane dimensions of authority while at the same time denoting official executants by means of appropriate insignia . |
| 3 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 4 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 5 | But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used . |
| 6 | Second , they risk being used ( misused ) to judge the performance of schools and of teachers in ways which are not in our best interests ( HM Inspectorate presently exists to oversee standards of teachers and schools , and can offer constructive criticism where necessary ; what is wrong with this system ? ) ; |
| 7 | Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food . |
| 8 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 9 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 10 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 11 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 12 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 13 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 15 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 16 | But not before they had been used . |
| 17 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 18 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 19 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 20 | Works on areal geology , mineralogy , and the applied earth sciences may be valuable in their own way , but the information they contain is used in a different way , and by different readers , from that in geophysics . |
| 21 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 22 | They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate . |
| 23 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |
| 24 | The qualities of beef and dairy types of Shorthorn have been appreciated worldwide and they have been used extensively in creating new breeds or improving existing ones and native types . |
| 25 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 26 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 27 | ‘ Once they have been used , tennis balls are then generally ignored by the members . |
| 28 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |
| 29 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 30 | They have been used to try to solve the problem of general properties or universals . |