Example sentences of "[be] used to [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students today are used to visual effects of a high quality , such as in documentary programmes on television , and expect competence on behalf of the tutor and clinical teacher in their use . |
| 2 | Here in the UK we are used to major variations in water chemistry from area to area despite this being only a small country ; the huge Amazon system , however , consists generally of soft and acid waters . |
| 3 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 4 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 5 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 6 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 7 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 8 | Pattern can be used to delicate effect in a bedroom . |
| 9 | At whatever level Procedure Audit is applied , it is a worthy addition to the toolboxes of all analysts or managers who are concerned at any time with making improvements of a procedural nature , and provides a further example of how soft systems ideas can be used to good effect for everyday analysis work . |
| 10 | A piano can be used to good effect with the organ , provided its pitch is compatible . |
| 11 | This approach can also be used to good effect with other well constructed languages : this is illustrated in { laws } , where a simple sequential language ( Dijkstra 's language of guarded commands unc is considered . |
| 12 | Cabled rib is very attractive and can be used to good effect on an otherwise plain sweater . |
| 13 | This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining . |
| 14 | Sauce is n't all that cranberries are fit for — they can be used to good effect in a number of recipes . |
| 15 | It was still there , and would be used to good effect in the relatively near future when the pitched battle returned as the more usual way of deciding the outcome of wars . |
| 16 | Subtle wash effects can be used to great effect on iced backgrounds , where different coloured fondants would be too strong . |
| 17 | Wind power can be used to great effect in Third World countries and outlying areas to pump water , to drive diesel engines and to store electricity in batteries . |
| 18 | Terrain can be used to great effect by the course designer . |
| 19 | They might be used to big crowds in the Lenin Stadium , but it 'll nothing like they 'll get at Anfield . ’ |
| 20 | At first it would be used to launched satellites at a tenth the cost of the shuttle . |
| 21 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 22 | Ground launched missiles were used to great affect by the Allies during the gulf war . |
| 23 | The nomes were used to large bodies of water . |
| 24 | This sense of accident is used to good effect by certain artists , for example Chris Meigh-Andrews , whose Fountain ( 1990 ) , shown at the Harris , makes use of the wiring and playback decks as elements of the sculpture itself , punning on the flow of current , images and imaged water . |
| 25 | Can you give me any information , including availability and cost , of the Photon guitar synthesiser which is used to great effect by John McLauglin but which I have never seen advertised . |
| 26 | For example , much of the Unix community is used to flexible networking under the openness of the TCP/IP umbrella . |
| 27 | It is used to different degrees in different authorities , which indicates that some have found a way to avoid this particular form of compulsory removal . |
| 28 | COLOUR , as an antidote to psychological and circumstantial greyness , is used to maximum effect by Christine McArthur in her exhibition of oil paintings , pastel drawings and water colours at the Ancrum Gallery , near Jedburgh . |
| 29 | A second set of oligonucleotides , envSfifor ( 5'-TTT GAT CTC GAG CTC CTG CAG GGC CGG CTG GGC CGC ACT GGA GCC GGG CGA AGC AGT-3' , complementary to MoMLV env nts 5893-5873 with a 36nt 5' overhang encoding a SfiI site and 21nt complementary to the 5' tail of envNotrev ) and revMLVpol ( 5'-AAT TAC ATT GTG CAT ACA GAC CC-3' , complementary to MoMLV pol nts 5277-5249 ) was used to prime amplification of a 702bp fragment from pCRIP ( and encoding upstream of env codon 7 ) . |
| 30 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |