Example sentences of "[noun sg] used [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic premise is that this depletion of inositol will desensitize phosphoinositide signalling by slowing down the resynthesis of the PtdIns(4,5)P 2 precursor used to release InsP 3 . |
| 2 | Although this organism does respond to treatment with certain antibiotics , it is , surprisingly , more sensitive to metronidazole , the anti-protozoal agent used to treat trichomonas . |
| 3 | Cyclosporin is a potent immunosuppressive agent used to prevent allograft rejection in solid organ transplantation . |
| 4 | By the early 1900s , the mill had been converted to a dower house , the water wheel used to grind bracken , etc , for the deer . |
| 5 | The journal is a book of prime entry used to record transactions which do not pass through the cash receipts or payments books , or purchases , sales or returns day books , for example , purchases and sales of fixed assets on credit , the correction of errors and other entries of an extraordinary nature . |
| 6 | In Equation ( 2.6.1 ) we arbitrarily assign ( n — 2 ) different values to unc ( other than unc = 0 , which we have in effect used to determine pn ) and then evaluate the ( numerical ) determinant for each of these . |
| 7 | Basting ( tacking ) is a temporary stitch used to hold layers of fabric together ( fig. 11 ) . |
| 8 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 9 | Tecnazene , a fungicide used to prevent potatoes from sprouting whilst in storage , was found at up to 13 times the level considered safe for fish in some factories . |
| 10 | Where copper pipe has been replaced by plastic or a plastic fitting used to join copper pipe , an earth wire must be fitted across the plastic . |
| 11 | It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes . |
| 12 | A key aspect of the methodology used to estimate population trends was the assumption that policies in place at the time of the analysis would continue . |
| 13 | In the past , from blood transfusion and products made from blood used to treat haemophilia . |
| 14 | Thus the extent of right brainedness among left handers is seen to be a function of the position of the criterion used to classify sinistrality . |
| 15 | a light faced vertical rule used to separate columns of type . |
| 16 | The association used to take dogs from the general public , although this acceptance has now ceased . |
| 17 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 18 | Dave 's cleaner in High Hall used to do loads of stuff for him , she used to wash his mugs up and all sorts of things . |
| 19 | The contract is for the provision of their Permanent Downhole Readout [ PDR ] equipment used to monitor downhole pressure and temperature to optimise production from hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs . |
| 20 | SPECIALIST equipment used to treat people with speech impediments has been stolen in a break-in at a Dumfries hospital . |
| 21 | After a visit to a prison , where he supplied an inmate with cannabis , his car was searched and found to have glassware , knife blades , bicarbonate of soda and gauze filters which was equipment used to turn cocaine hydrochloride into free base cocaine . |
| 22 | A piece of communication equipment used to enable computers to send data to and from each other . |
| 23 | UN inspectors arrived in Baghdad on June 26 to supervise the destruction at Muthana , 130 km north-west of the capital , of 60 items of equipment used to make casings for chemical bombs . |
| 24 | The prosecution alleged that he had been found in possession of military equipment used to supply rebels based in Zaïre . |
| 25 | People are at risk when they share needles , syringes and other equipment used to inject drugs . |
| 26 | Greaves and Law used to score goals like these . |
| 27 | Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 . |
| 28 | Only a small proportion of this total are in fact suspect , say the surveyors who accuse the societies of over-reaction in the wake of the discrediting of the standard test used to monitor impurities . |
| 29 | In 1989 it launched the moderately successful SystemPro server , a machine used to move information about between PCs . |
| 30 | The court heard that the employee injured by the machine used to cut aluminium frames had made a full recovery and was back at work . |