Example sentences of "[noun pl] use to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the tactics used to discipline these two groups were very different . |
| 2 | The UK Forestry Commission would take issue with the findings of the UN ECE because they are doubtful of the methods used to measure damage . |
| 3 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 4 | The measure of comprehensive income will differ in accordance with the methods used to value assets and the concept of capital maintenance employed . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago she was Lucy and Frieda 's age , putting on school uniform for the first day of the winter term , long serge skirt suddenly covering the scratched knees used to shorts , thick woolly stockings sliding strangely up the white smooth skin , nylon suspender belt holding in her stomach making her think of the opening under the dark bush below . |
| 6 | The parameters used to measure growth must therefore be chosen to be representative , characteristic , reliable , and objective . |
| 7 | More than 60% of AT&T 's $36 billion of sales comes from telephone calls , the remainder from sales of telephone equipment — the big computer-like switches that work telephone exchanges , and the smaller ones , called PABXs , that offices use to route calls internally . |
| 8 | In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes . |
| 9 | It 's a far cry from the muck owners used to shovel down their CATS — fishbones , diced heart and other dubious delights ! |
| 10 | Aeroplanes used to h made of wood and gliders still are ; wooden ships are supposed to be more robust in ice than steel ones . |
| 11 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 12 | It has succeeded without any of the marketing hype , environmental or otherwise , that rival firms use to soft-soap their customers . |
| 13 | This discrepancy probably results from the different techniques used to measure metabolism . |
| 14 | That might not please American generals used to secrecy , but America should agree anyway . |
| 15 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 16 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 17 | MATERNAL CAUSES — In the Eight Revision of the International Classification of Diseases used to Code Cause of Death , maternal causes are items B40 that refers to abortion ( causes 640–645 ) and B41 that includes other complications of pregnancy , childbirth and the puerperium as well as delivery without mention of complication ( causes 630–639 , 650–678 ) ; in the Ninth Revision , items AM42 abortion ( causes 630–639 ) , AM43 Direct obstetric causes ( 640–646 , 651–676 ) and AM44 Indirect obstetric causes ( 647 , 648 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now . |
| 19 | We children used to camp out here in the summer … ’ |
| 20 | It not only gives the inexperienced teacher an opportunity to build up confidence , it also gets children used to role play being taken seriously . |
| 21 | Maggie had braced herself against Fenna 's wrath , but dragons are deeply wily , they are tempters used to souls far more subtle than any fifteen-year-old child can be . |
| 22 | That was hard work all the time , my hands my hands used to chap on the backs , used to chap hands and that was only , I was over the wind , I wind and , and er when I used to scrub the cabin out which was with washing soda and soft soap and when you went along cos that was you get , you get erm , ordinary washing soda on the back of your hands and they did n't supply anything then . |
| 23 | The three criteria used to measure the worth of information were ; speed of response , quality and cost . |
| 24 | And er they used to the cows used to calf you know |