Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential that these externally borrowed funds are used to stimulate long-term economic growth and exports in order to service the debt , i.e. interest cost , plus principal repayment . |
| 2 | This policy would be used to stimulate aggregate demand to reduce the unemployment caused by these structural changes . |
| 3 | The resolution of differences in this or any other way became still more unlikely when in January 1991 military force was used to restore central authority in Latvia and Lithuania on the pretext that the Soviet Constitution was being violated ( in particular , that the civil rights of the non-indigenous population were being infringed and that the call-up of recruits into the armed forces was being impeded ) . |
| 4 | With this row added to the tableau , primal feasibility is violated and the dual simplex method is used to restore primal feasibility . |
| 5 | it shows how the centrefold effect can be used to embrace wide landscapes ; how a minimum of colour can gain maximum effect , and how a few lines of scribble can hold a lot of memory . |
| 6 | The HNC incorporates work-based assessment and , when MCI Diploma guidelines are published , a similar development is planned so that the wider competence base of the Diplomas can be used to support middle or functional managers . |
| 7 | However , the initial investigation had revealed that there was some potential for the use of a computer to support the primary functions ( ie identifying and meeting resident needs ) , which in addition could be used to support other tasks , such as processing financial transactions and records . |
| 8 | If one read the linguistic signs as pointing to something vaguely beyond the poem , to ‘ Something evermore about to be ’ ( Prelude 1805 , vi , 542 ) , then the poetry could be used to support innumerable creeds . |
| 9 | It belongs to a group of stands and tripods made in Cyprus and Sardinia which were probably used to support round-bottomed ceramic vessels . |
| 10 | It is necessarily of the same quality as the data used to support managerial control , because it is that data , used for a different purpose ; and because the data is of a type already in currency , its use needs no special explanation or defence . |
| 11 | Education is used to support current social differences , since it claims to generate distinctions based on merit rather than birth or wealth , being itself the means by which differential ability is identified . |
| 12 | Pick Systems delivered , and realised in the process that the serial-port support could equally well be used to support dumb terminals . |
| 13 | To this end , Northern , Tandem and Cincinnati Bell will jointly establish integration and test facilities for equipment from the three companies , which will also be used to support smooth deployment of new network services . |
| 14 | The information will be used to support British contributions to international programmes on the assessment of hazardous chemicals , including a proposed European Community regulation . |
| 15 | India , which had removed the final contingent of Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) troops from Sri Lanka in March 1990 [ see p. 37316 ] , expressed concern for the plight of Tamil civilians but made it clear that it would not permit its territory to be used to support militant activity . |
| 16 | In the National Certificate in Scotland there are already such generic units and these can be used to support occupational programmes . |
| 17 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 18 | It raised $20,200,000 , which the government said would be used to support agrarian reform and earthquake relief projects . |
| 19 | Another argument used to support indirect taxes on welfare grounds is that they can be used to combat ‘ externalities ’ . |
| 20 | They they when when I was younger used to go regular but they did n't go regular you know as years advanced . |
| 21 | The four degree score of Binder was used to classify clinical and endoscopic findings . |
| 22 | If it is invested in physical capital for the public sector or used to retire outstanding government debt , it is not at all imprudent . |
| 23 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 24 | Warehouses were used to accommodate full-scale models of rooms . |
| 25 | Slim-line tension rods , which are telescopic , are used to carry net curtains neatly without any fixing brackets , but they can only be used within a window reveal as they spring out to grip the sides . |
| 26 | It is used to acquire fixed assets such as buildings and plant and to provide working capital . |
| 27 | It is used to acquire fixed assets such as buildings and plant and to provide working capital . |
| 28 | The Act can also be used to acquire ancillary rights needed in the national interest to facilitate the working of minerals . |
| 29 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |
| 30 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |