Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 2 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 3 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 4 | They were not used to all this fervour and zeal . |
| 5 | We were not used to large houses … . |
| 6 | When this was done it was found that 799 comments from the potential risks condition were given codes which were not used by any subject in the description of that five second section . |
| 7 | They had large capacity halls — maybe three or four thousand people there , which was funny for the boys because they were n't used to that . |
| 8 | They did n't er they they were n't used to industrial action I think it 's fair to say and er they did n't want they were n't quite sure whether you know they they might be taken over by cert well certain political f factions if you like . |
| 9 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 10 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |
| 11 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 12 | So , for example , a request that evidence be taken on oath would be complied with in Switzerland despite the fact that the oath was not used under local procedure . |
| 13 | If one reads the Gospels themselves , with no preconceptions whatever , there is nothing to suggest that the title was not used in all seriousness — was not perfectly legitimate and acknowledged as such by at least some of Jesus 's contemporaries , including Pilate . |
| 14 | The principle of intention to treat was not used in this analysis as the purpose was evaluation of the untreated condition and the effects of treatments rather than their feasibility . |
| 15 | His story was not used in any British newspapers , but the real backlash came when How I Won the War was screened at the Pavilion Cinema in London 's West End , in October 1967 , exactly twenty-five years after the battle of El Alamein , which saw the war begin to swing in Britain 's favour . |
| 16 | It is strange that although this technology was known it was not used by Kentish craftsmen for nearly 50 years . |
| 17 | She was n't used to such handsome men paying her attention . |
| 18 | I was n't used to such good treatment , then it clicked : we were wearing suits . |
| 19 | I simply was n't used to all the attention , but I answered their questions as best I could . |
| 20 | He was n't used to all this political discussion . |
| 21 | She was n't used to that either . |