Example sentences of "were use [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Video cameras were used regularly in the late 1980s for crowd surveillance at soccer grounds , and as a method of enforcing post-match arrests ( Uglow , 1988:95 ) . |
| 2 | During the course of the fieldwork under discussion here , they were used principally as a means of access to user groups and also as foils for cross-checking general data provided by other informants . |
| 3 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 4 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |
| 5 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 6 | Computers were used extensively during the car 's development , in a successful attempt to make the AX 220lb lighter than the class average . |
| 7 | Computer-aided design and engineering techniques were used extensively in the creation of the Clio 's bodyshell . |
| 8 | These were used later during the validations . |
| 9 | I examined numerous texts ( English , social studies , history , geography , maths and science ) which were used mostly with the fourteen plus age group to locate some of the sexist trends in curriculum materials . [ … ] |
| 10 | Lighting our houses , workplaces and public buildings may account for over 10GW of power at peak time — this could be cut by 75 per cent if new fluorescent lamps were used instead of the incandescent light bulb . |
| 11 | The source/ destination codes added to the database during the MINSE analysis gave a fair indication of these relationships , and were used informally during the initial evaluation of software packages . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 13 | The bricks were laid in alternate courses with stone or concrete , or were used only as a facing on a concrete core . |
| 14 | Female animals were used only for the less significant peace-offerings when animals of either sex could be sacrificed ( Lev . |
| 15 | Portfolio controls were used intermittently through the 1970s , but have fallen out of favour in the 1980s and early 1990s with the recognition that they distort the workings of the financial system , and that methods of circumventing the controls exist ( see Hall 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Mr. Samuel Kay had bought the Greek Street site for £5,000 ; the buildings were used thereafter as a Central School , and Evening School , and a hall for hire . |
| 17 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 18 | These were used copiously over the years of Stormont rule . |
| 19 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |