Example sentences of "be used [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These aids are used as signals to the horse to tell him what we would like him to do . |
| 2 | Those programs that filter or rearrange the data write output files in the same format as the inputs , so that they may be used as inputs to the other applications . |
| 3 | This will not always be used as visits to departments or ward rounds may form part of the programme . |
| 4 | Formal risk assessment and evaluation methods should be used as aids to judgement , not as substitutes for it . |
| 5 | ‘ It is absolutely staggering that while the Ministry of Defence was deploying soldiers in the Gulf , the Department of Trade and Industry was allowing British companies to supply equipment that could be used for munitions to the enemy , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The order to use Saddam 's cash was made by the UN Security Council which insisted it should also be used for reparations to Kuwait . |
| 7 | The cash will be used for trips to Hungary in the future and for further medical treatment . |
| 8 | These flat files were used as inputs to the contig-building software , together with ancilliary files giving information about the positions of any mapped probes and any contigs that had been determined previously . |
| 9 | A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places . |
| 10 | And another advantage of these mechanisms of defence is they apply to other inputs to the ego , not just those from the er from the unconscious or from the organism itself but from the outside , for example the denial is a defence mechanism that can be used against reality and is used by psychotics to great and often disastrous effect . |
| 11 | The All Souls Trust had taken a seven-year lease on the church and virtually the whole of this time was used on repairs to the spire and roof . |
| 12 | In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers . |
| 13 | In many cases , according to Stoker , the threat of privatization was used by councils to ‘ re-establish firm control over their in-house staff and trade unions . |