Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] used [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latin motets , particularly the shorter and simpler ones by Lassus and Gallus ( Handl ) , were much used by the Lutheran church . |
| 2 | Inside the fence were six palm-frond houses identical to those which were once used in the old Abu Dhabi . |
| 3 | For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) . |
| 4 | Indeed one can safely say that almost all of our roads and tracks were used in medieval times and perhaps most were also used in the prehistoric period as well . |
| 5 | Dogs of this type were also used in the Asiatic wars against rival armies . |
| 6 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 7 | Leases for lives were sometimes used in the eastern half of the country , but here the normal method of tenure was the lease for a restricted period , from one to twenty-one years . |
| 8 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 9 | To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers . |
| 10 | Mr Given said the facility was widely used throughout the local community . |
| 11 | Cannabis was widely used in the Middle East during this period , and it seems unlikely that the practice in itself would seem remarkable enough to cause any comment among Arabs . |
| 12 | Brass is another important alloy of copper ( made with zinc ) , which first appears during the latter half of the first millennium BC and was widely used from the Roman period onwards . |
| 13 | These pipes stretching thinly in a bridge across the service road injected a mix of chemicals into the walls of the furnace itself ; did I know that fuel was only used in the start-up process , after which the chemicals themselves provided the fire ? |
| 14 | Indeed in an edited volume devoted to Man 's Impact on the Hydrological Cycle in the United Kingdom Hollis ( 1979 ) collected results of current scientific investigation for the benefit of scientists and managers and separated the chapters into sections dealing with rural and urban environments respectively , a subdivision which was also used in the hydrological field ( IAHS , 1974 ) . |
| 15 | Aspirin was also used by the elderly woman in the first case . |
| 16 | The expression the frog 's boon was also used by the old horseman in another way that is worth recording : it was heard as a kind of metaphor for ‘ being in control ’ . |
| 17 | Artistic licence was often used in the old seed catalogues ! ( above ) |
| 18 | He employed a builder from his home town who was well used to the sophisticated style in which the many rich cloth merchants were building their houses . |