Example sentences of "used [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the oligonucleotide binding-site probes 5% gels ( 29:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used while 4% gels ( 39:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used for the circularly permutated 143 bp restriction fragments . |
| 2 | Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument . |
| 3 | She said that while the carrot of jobs was being held out to the local community , local people would only be used for the most menial of tasks . |
| 4 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 5 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 6 | The predominance of Latin in this sample reflects the fact that many letters were addressed to bishops , and that Latin was used for the more solemn and formal instruments emanating from her chancery . |
| 7 | It is still used for the more advanced undergraduate work and for sharing knowledge gained in research . |
| 8 | When different tracks are used for the out and in-bound legs , the difference in degrees between the two is based on the formula |
| 9 | But the National Grid reported ‘ no discernible difference ’ in the amount of power used after the 3pm broadcast of the speech on BBC1 and ITV . |
| 10 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 11 | We will now see if it is possible to state in what circumstances the different tones are used within the very limited context of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ said in isolation . |
| 12 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 13 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 14 | In engineering , cellulose is never used in the completely dry condition so that the range of strength and stiffness is not quite as bad as it sounds . |
| 15 | The language of science overlaps with that of ordinary life , but words like ‘ field ’ , ‘ elementary ’ and ‘ family ’ came to be used in the later nineteenth century in rather different senses in physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 16 | A library , like any other organisation , has a limited amount of manpower and money to carry out the activities required and expected of it ; training is just one way of ensuring that these resources are used in the most effective possible manner . |
| 17 | The taxpayer : The financial targets set for each agency are designed to be demanding , ‘ so that the taxpayer can be certain that the money that is provided for these services is used in the most efficient way ’ . |
| 18 | This effect was used in the very early cameras , which did not have a lens but produced an image by admitting light through a pinhole . |
| 19 | The to infinitive is called for with such verbs , so it is not surprising that perceptual verbs should take to before the infinitive when used in the more conceptual inferential sense . |
| 20 | It is not used in the more restricted sense given to the term " trade secrets " in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 but which has now been effectively viewed as being too narrow by two members of the Court of Appeal in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418 : see p82 below , we think the approach in Lansing Linde is to be preferred . |
| 21 | They selectively attract a pest to spray deposits ; these were used in the much publicised campaign against the Mediterranean fruit fly in California . |
| 22 | Today , in the climate of deregulation , the term ‘ independent ’ is generally used in the purely economic sense , to refer to the growing number of smaller commercial companies operating outside the BBC/ITV duopoly . |
| 23 | It originally had been suggested that one ball only might be used on the supposedly lusher New Zealand grounds . |
| 24 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 25 | Governments were used to the fairly simple process of changing a syllabus , but confronted with a new orthodoxy that it was desirable to engage in curriculum development , they were usually happy initially to see this potentially time-consuming exercise take place outside the Ministry , at University Institutes of Education or specially constituted curriculum development centres . |
| 26 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 27 | The push to get the first story into the can proved a very tough course indeed , especially for a fledgling Producer used to the more singular ways of commercial Television . |
| 28 | TWO planes used by the financially troubled Paramount Airways will remain grounded over the weekend after the Court of Appeal last night overturned a court ruling just two hours before freeing the aircraft . |
| 29 | I chose the St Edmund Hall book I did because it was by a contemporary politician , and also because it was representative of one of the largest classes of dispersed books , those used by the immediately preceding generation : that is , those published in the fifties and sixties . |
| 30 | This has been the method used by the most successful interactive video systems of recent years . |