Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there is little doubt that a great many of the books and journals purchased by universities are not used at all . |
| 2 | Some of the holes are not used at all . |
| 3 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 4 | Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks . |
| 5 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 6 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
| 7 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 8 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 9 | Multi-AA battery compartments are not used on current Teknetics machines ; they now use PP3s with terminals and wires . |
| 10 | Pacemakers are not used in those with either first or second degree heart block , or in those with 1:1 conduction rhythm with a normal PR interval . |
| 11 | There are ways of indicating the beginning of a new paragraph in a piece of narrative , for example , which are not used in explanatory discourse . |
| 12 | Indeed notions of moral indignation , moral panic or moral conflict are not used in this perspective at all . |
| 13 | Therefore , although statements of the no-arbitrage condition which use continuous compounding are common in the academic literature , they are not used in this book , which will use F = ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) . |
| 14 | The three colours are not used throughout this design and areas of stocking stitch alternate with much thicker areas where the three colours are knitted ; notice that there are quite long floats . |
| 15 | Items marked with an asterix ( * ) are not used by High Elf troops and are not therefore available to High Elf characters . |
| 16 | Shorter wavelengths than this can cause damage to animal tissue and so they are not used by any life , except us . |
| 17 | Erm , if you 're not used to that then perhaps this 'll be more useful . |
| 18 | But that 's a more difficult one because we 're not used to that . |
| 19 | They 're not used to this intimidating energy , the volume , Bono 's mobile passion . |
| 20 | JUST KEEP GOING Phew , this exercise lark is blooming hard work , and I 'm not used to that . |
| 21 | and I 'm not used to that , shove them up |
| 22 | Then on an embarrassed laugh , he added , ‘ I 'm not used to polite society . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh my , I 'm not used to all this hard work . |
| 24 | no but I 'm not used to all the boys like being around and they 're really manipulative , you know , and they really , they 're really cunning and clever , you know ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not used to this . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not used to this you know . |
| 27 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |
| 28 | and , , and they felt really bad apparently and they 'd apologized , you know , and everything was cool and I thought I was quite adamant though but they 'd , they , I 'm not used to this , you know , I 'm quite naive as Zoey says and I 'm not used to boys |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not used to some bloody apprentice waltzing into my house and asking me about my private affairs — ’ |
| 30 | I 'm not used to these little titchy baths . |