Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few sequences were eventually used in BT in modified or abbreviated form . |
| 2 | These were widely used as disinfectants and the crystals in particular for treatment of snakebite after Dr Lacerda recommended potassium permanganate for this purpose in 1881 . |
| 3 | As in stone-built barns , slits were widely used in brick structures and they were generally arranged in rows . |
| 4 | Plastics — that here leave little to the imagination — were widely used in fashion . |
| 5 | But the great majority of the class , including all those with typical saw-blade profiles ( graptoloids ) which were widely used in the dating of rocks , certainly lacked any kind of rooting structure . |
| 6 | The committee recognised that both ‘ f ’ and ‘ ph ’ spellings were widely used in English texts and made no specific recommendation . |
| 7 | The earliest period in which garden ornaments were widely used in England was the Tudor age , when wooden columns painted in the armorial colours of the garden 's owner were surmounted by carved beasts of heraldic significance . |
| 8 | PCBs were widely used in electrical transformers and capacitors until they were banned in 1977 . |
| 9 | Reports of the importation of 2,000 Israeli Uzi submachine guns and Galil assault rifles three weeks before the coup , and which were widely used by rebel soldiers , lent credence to this view . |
| 10 | Supplies of red stones were already available in the form of garnets , and it is known that these were much used by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers . |
| 11 | Latin motets , particularly the shorter and simpler ones by Lassus and Gallus ( Handl ) , were much used by the Lutheran church . |
| 12 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 13 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 14 | This was an additional trimming to the single horse-mowing machines ( 3ft. –4ft wide ) which were daily used on the course by the club 's own employees . |
| 15 | This was at a time when cylinders were only used for dictation purposes , not for recording music , and a speed of about 100 revolutions per minute was found adequate . |
| 16 | He converted the first two into toilets and the others were only used for customers , invariably foreign journalists who were too drunk to drive home . |
| 17 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 18 | Murray 's Handbook repeatedly warned white passengers that particular stations were only used by Indians . |
| 19 | We had a lot of walking to do , bicycles were only used by the policemen on the outskirts of the borough . |
| 20 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
| 21 | Many electric fires were thus used as intermittent bedroom heating at night , or to heat the main room on cooler spring or autumn evenings when the coal fire had not been needed during the day . |
| 22 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 23 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 24 | American women , they learned , did not much care for murky colours but wanted bright yellows and apple greens , vibrant colours which were hardly used at all in Europe . |
| 25 | LEAKED memoranda from the Department of the Environment were yesterday used by Labour to protest at the alleged abuse of civil service time to cost Labour 's programme . |
| 26 | Elder , Sambucus Nigra , will produce dull blue , lavender and purples ; marigold petals were once used for colouring butter and cheese , and the common dandelion supplies pink . |
| 27 | Inside the fence were six palm-frond houses identical to those which were once used in the old Abu Dhabi . |
| 28 | They are like small chambers ; they were once used by pirates , only His Grace , the late King , cleared them out with fire , sword , and gallows . |
| 29 | Mr Maclean was taken across to the National Trust 's new property by ferry and given a tour of the wildlife habitats and the crumbling buildings , some of which were once used by Barnes Wallis in the development of the bouncing bomb of Dambusters fame . |
| 30 | The jarrah timbers from the tracks were gradually used in the repair of lock gates . |