Example sentences of "used [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 2 | After 16 , A-levels will remain the ‘ gold standard , ’ but schools will teach more vocational courses which will also be used for entry to higher education . |
| 3 | Back to back bar charts can be used as back to back stem and leaf displays were to compare two distributions . |
| 4 | The final document is used throughout nursery to P7 stages . |
| 5 | The words ‘ dependent ’ and ‘ independent ’ are frequently used with reference to elderly people . |
| 6 | It is used with reference to education , and does not divide the pupils sharply into two groups with totally different needs . |
| 7 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |
| 8 | the standard format for depicting the Member who has the floor should be a head and shoulder shot , not a close-up ; ( d wide-angle shots of the Chamber may be used from time to time ; |
| 9 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |
| 10 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 11 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 12 | Additionally , buckwheat , bamboo shoots , millet , sago and tapioca can be used from time to time , but these are not usually very popular . |
| 13 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 14 | One thinks here , for example , of noun phrases being used in response to wh-questions . |
| 15 | Figures are shown separately for Interview Style — the rather careful speech used in direct response to the fieldworker 's questions- and for a more spontaneous style not used in response to questions and often not addressing the fieldworker . |
| 16 | However subsequent research has shown that both negatives and passives are used in response to the presence of particular pragmatic factors . |
| 17 | But Joan does not use any of these stereotypically " black " lexical items : rather , her Creole seems to be used in response to Carol 's use of Creole . |
| 18 | A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview . |
| 19 | This is surely where academic research can be used as a useful corrective by examining the power of some of the central terms which are used in day to day discussion to make sense of the urban present . |
| 20 | As a rule , a term used in contrast to " semantically " ie practising the form rather than the meaning . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 22 | I would like to ask permission for the following tracks to be used in addition to those listed in the letter of 5 June : |
| 23 | Designed to give high-level treatment and protection to damaged hair , Salon Intensives can be used in addition to your normal shampoo and conditioner or as part of your weekly haircare routine to give your hair a new lease of life . |
| 24 | Where nothing is forthcoming for a word position , shape and length could be used along with higher level information to select potential words ; where some characters are suggested these could be used in addition to this information ; if only one or two letter positions in a word have no candidates , shape information could be used to select letter candidates , along with the restrictions provided by the adjacent letters . |
| 25 | A good waterproof adhesive should be used in addition to fixing screws . |
| 26 | The ideas below are to be used in addition to the basic strategies , not instead of them . |
| 27 | For analysing the way in which theological terms like ‘ faith ’ , ‘ grace ’ and ‘ revelation ’ are used in order to undergird the ‘ meaning ’ theist position , and for a more general discussion of the issues , there is a useful collection edited by Basil Mitchell called Faith and Logic . |
| 28 | When compliance is not taken for granted , to is used in order to " futurize " the infinitive event 's actualization , i.e. to evoke it as something which the person receiving the request may or may not decide to do . |
| 29 | From now on the capital G would always be used in reference to them . |
| 30 | Being ‘ sold a pup ’ at fair was also used in reference to a pig . |