Example sentences of "are [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 | We are n't used to such — such hugeness . |
| 18 | ‘ With Joan Armatrading , we did 2–3000 seaters , and that just worked fantastically , especially as I like to communicate with the audience , and people these days are n't used to that . |