Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a very little , it would be the time when once she had used to sit with Mama … |
| 2 | The issue system will issue and discharge books and items in the normal way but can also be used to search for information and to produce overdues . |
| 3 | There is a consensus among the public that cars should not be used to go to work . |
| 4 | These estimated 's can then be used to estimate from equation ( 3.15 ) , that is : where over a variable or coefficient denotes our estimate of the variable or coefficient . |
| 5 | Although the plan is used to invest in unit trusts , the added advantage of a PEP is that it s free from Capital Gains Tax , which is charged on the straight unit trust mortgage . |
| 6 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 7 | Stars are used to indicate in frame stop codons upstream of the putative start codon . |
| 8 | Odds ratios were calculated and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounding by age at diagnosis and calendar period . |
| 9 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |
| 10 | EXCLUDE ZONE=SEA is used to eliminate from consideration the zone whose identifier is SEA . |
| 11 | Once again she was being used to wave in front of Claudine and she knew it . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're silly , ’ said my mother , getting angry because she was n't used to converse of culture . |
| 13 | A full product range is offered including trees , elbows and straight connectors , and there is a handy end stop which can be used to blank off pipe ends temporarily . |
| 14 | Scripts from the Smart software have been used to help with installation . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the pilot study is to be expanded to areas outside the north east and it is hoped that it will eventually be used to help with funding applications , and provide statistical data for the press . |
| 16 | Price Waterhouse had been used to help with quality issues and to provide independent advice . |
| 17 | Prostaglandins are also used to help in childbirth . |
| 18 | As in " The retreate " , a distal demonstrative construction is used to point to time past ; and this also has a qualifying element ( the phrase " which can not die " ) . |
| 19 | The once-in-a-while reward is often used to deal with disobedience about coming to the parents ' bed in the middle of the night . |
| 20 | The first was that the estimates of risk of death from cancer which are used to predict for radiation work — mainly from A-bomb victims — seem to be borne out by these early results . |
| 21 | This image is then used to put in doubt the very existence of its counterpart in the previous chapter : |
| 22 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
| 23 | This shadowing phenomenon can be used to determine nearest neighbour interatomic distances in surfaces . |
| 24 | Many are funded and developed in conjunction with the Science and Engineering Research Council and may be used to qualify for postgraduate diplomas or an MSc . |
| 25 | Instead , in a replay , the number of corners awarded in extra time will be used to decide to outcome . |
| 26 | β-actin was used to control for RNA loading , and Eb was used as an internal control for the number of class II MHC expressing cells . |
| 27 | Me know the answer ! , in contrast , both the extra-verbal person evoked by me and the generalized person incorporated within the infinitive know as the support of a merely potential knowing are situated in the present , which explains the absence of to and the fact that this sentence can be used to call into question the possibility that the speaker has the knowledge at the present moment . |
| 28 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 29 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 30 | Different nouns are sometimes used to refer to female and male members of the same species : cow/bull , sow/boar , doe/stag , mare/stallion , ewe/ram . |