Example sentences of "used be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 2 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 3 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 4 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 5 | The inhibiting antibodies used were monospecific , showed on cross reactivity , and blocked maximum standard urokinase type plasminogen activator and tissue type plasminogen activator activity completely . |
| 6 | The routes the Sweepers used were restricted access , so he had little fear of detection . |
| 7 | At the end of the year l9X1 it was found that actual production overhead costs amounted to £160,000 in cost centre X and £138,000 in cost centre Y. The total direct labour cost in cost centre X was £144,200 and the machine hours used were 18,000 in cost centre Y during the year . |
| 8 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 9 | The competitor species used were 20- and 100-fold excesses of ds LTR , single stranded LTR , a short single ( ML1 ) or double ( ML1:ML2 ) stranded DNA of 49 bp , tRNA Pro , tRNA Lys and a 415 base HIV-1 RNA . |
| 10 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 11 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 12 | Topography codes used were 1541 , 1542 , 1543 , and 1548 , and histology codes were 80513–80523 , 80703–80763 , 80903–80953 , and 81203–81243 . |
| 13 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 14 | The dilutions used were those previously established as exhibiting the best ratio of staining to background . |
| 15 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 16 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 17 | The solutions used were 140 mmol/l NaCl ( solution I ) or a solution containing Na 140 , acetate 60 , propionate 40 , butyrate 20 , and chloride 20 mmol/l ( solution II ) . |
| 18 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 19 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 20 | The most striking temper used was that of vegetable matter , known as grass-or chaff-tempering , perhaps added as a water-absorbing agent ( Brisbane 1983 , p. 254 ) . |
| 21 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 23 | The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations . |
| 24 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 25 | The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al . |
| 26 | I think the word he used was irreplaceable , was n't it , Rob ? ’ |
| 27 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 28 | The language used was familiar , but the explanations were not acceptable to the Beijing students . |
| 29 | The material used was cheap , readily available — very often with attractive photographs or other illustrated matter — and took up space unfilled by the papers ' own journalists . |
| 30 | The business was able to carry on but the flat he sometimes used was uninhabitable ; he came up to London only on Tuesday nights and " camped out " for the fire-watching while for the rest of the time he commuted between London and Surrey . |