Example sentences of "were use [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 2 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 3 | Seven states have completely banned hypnotised witness from testifying and one allows such testimony only if presumed safeguards such as video-taping were used during hypnosis . |
| 4 | Cold-chain monitors were used during shipment and storage . |
| 5 | Non-parametric methods were used with significance determined at the 5% level . |
| 6 | To achieve the extremely low power consumption , D-fet active loads were used with gate widths of only 5mm . |
| 7 | The report also mentioned contamination problems during the manufacture of the anti-allergic eye product Opticrom and suggests that ‘ beer kegs ’ were used for storage during the manufacture of Imferon , an injectable iron . |
| 8 | The ground-floor rooms were used for storage , cooking and other work : from them stairways rose to the living and sleeping quarters upstairs . |
| 9 | These arches were used for storage . |
| 10 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 11 | Under Somoza , there were scarcely any official prisons as such ; rather , the National Guard command posts were used for detention . |
| 12 | They argue that long-term technological changes mean that manufacturing needs more space per worker , and also often larger plots , and that this both puts cities at a disadvantage in relation to other areas and means that , even if all available urban land were used for manufacturing , there would still be a decline in employment . |
| 13 | During one practical session when the kitchens were used for survey purposes , booklice were actually found in the flour storage bins . |
| 14 | III were used for accumulation in Dept . |
| 15 | Whilst the costs of conservation can be measured relatively easily ( for example , the direct costs of site management or the production possibilities if the land were used for agriculture or forestry ) , there are almost no tangible measures of the benefits of conservation . |
| 16 | Modern economics and technology have created a throw-away society based on costs and profits , and the days when only best quality woods were used for joinery are long gone . |
| 17 | Standard procedures were used for plasmid DNA manipulations ( 13 ) . |
| 18 | Bovis Homes points out that the exterior and lobby area were used for location shots , but not the interiors . |
| 19 | ( The women also had tusks , so that I wondered if they were used for offence or defence . |
| 20 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 21 | Balloon tamponade ( Linton tube ) and vasoactive drugs ( vasopressin ) were used for haemorrhage which persisted despite sclerotherapy ( four cases ) . |
| 22 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 23 | In Medieval times rivers were used for water supply and to power mills as well as for navigation . |
| 24 | Thus , 11 samples were used for adenylate cyclase , nine for cAMP , six for guanylate cyclase , and six for cGMP determination in the untreated patients . |
| 25 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 26 | We never observed any labelled protein when wild type oligonucleotides were used for competition . |
| 27 | Precoated silica gel thin layer high resolution plates ( Whatman HP-KF 10×10 cm ) were used for chromatography . |
| 28 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 29 | Mantel-Haenszel weights were used for summary risk ratio estimates . |
| 30 | Although horses were kept it is not at all clear whether they , as opposed to cattle , were used for traction . |