Example sentences of "used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 2 | For used to go over the road and they used to go over the railway . |
| 3 | Now that used to go in the old stew pot and they used to boil the bones till the meat dropped off , and the vegetables And that was your most of your meal for the rest of the week . |
| 4 | Great l vans of them used to go round the glens doing that . |
| 5 | It is effective when read aloud , where the voice can be used to carry over the syntax and sense . |
| 6 | It is extremely important , because of the price and resale differences between items from the various countries , to ask specifically whether the name used refers to the rug 's place of origin or its design . |
| 7 | The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the input page . |
| 8 | The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the current page . |
| 9 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 10 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 11 | The average number of labelled cells ( x ) per 50 hemicrypts in the proliferation zone was used to extrapolate to the total crypt size . |
| 12 | Substrate spawning species have special brood care patterns , ( usually in the parent responsible for care of the young , but often in both adults ) , which are used to communicate with the fry . |
| 13 | Mr Marshall 's fair used to come for the feast weekend and , in 1914 , he again contributed to the effort by offering to play sacred music on his fairground organ after the Sunday church services , with a collection for the hospital funds . |
| 14 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 15 | It can also specify the password to be used to obtain to the module . |
| 16 | The Doppler shift was used to compensate for the gravitational spectral shift of photons travelling along the tower . |
| 17 | Consequently a simple histogram constructed from the mass and molar mass of each fraction will not provide a good representation of the distribution and a method must be used to compensate for the overlapping . |
| 18 | The intensity of warfare and the weight of weapons used declines across the spectrum ; all the bands are blurred at the edges where they overlap ; and each has a number of gradations within it . |
| 19 | Whichever device is used depends on the conditions — the bladder is more suitable for soft rock . |
| 20 | Remember that the type of bulb used depends on the number of lamps in the set . |
| 21 | Precisely what sort of cable will be used depends on the network architecture you 've chosen . |
| 22 | The screen used depends on the printing process and the paper to be used , the higher the quality the more lines can be used . |
| 23 | The number of handlers used depends on the number of units available , the operations which those units can perform and the number of items which require to be offlined . |
| 24 | The type of admissible algorithm used depends on the nature of the search space . |
| 25 | Whether the tapes are used depends upon the broadcasting and television producers . |
| 26 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 27 | The only possibility is that information from the context was used to eliminate from the cohort items which were inconsistent with the preceding context . |
| 28 | Also we have which can be used to replace in the previous equation : Multiplying both sides by sin 3 i gives which is a quantity known to astronomers as the mass function . |
| 29 | For longer trips , there are travel sickness tablets especially for dogs and even those made for human consumption can be very beneficial if used according to the instructions for dosing a child . |
| 30 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan mentioned a wider range of headhunters , naming Heidrick and Struggles and a number of smaller search firms , used according to the salary level of the appointment . |