Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] used [prep] " in BNC.

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1 While they acknowledge that the data on their first two questions , as to whether sign languages are understood by foreigners , were mostly self-reports , they conclude that signs used in foreign countries , or even in different parts of the same country , are largely unintelligible in connected discourse .
2 He also points out that legs used to regular running have muscles concentrated at the top , with a system of tendons working the leg attached to the bone .
3 When a further instruction stated that vessels used in services were not exempt , the Patriarch Tikhon told the faithful to resist .
4 In addition to being consistent over time , it is clearly desirable that indicators used within a single year be consistent .
5 In mathematics we would say that fractions used in practical work have to be related to a unit .
6 I t was a clasp knife , the sort that fishermen used for gutting fish .
7 The structure that Pals used as a child was an intuitive understanding of gears .
8 Gulliver ( 1979 ) , investigating infant teachers ' assumptions in listening to reading , argued that the ploys that teachers used in helping children read aloud were patterned by their underlying perceptions of reading .
9 UK local authorities should be encouraged to require that buses used on tendered routes should offer high standards of accessibility through low-floor design or equipping them with lifts or ramps .
10 Most agree that measures used in combination provide much more reliable indicators of performance .
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