Example sentences of "which [was/were] used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 2 | The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick . |
| 3 | She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback by breed and I resist the urgings of trendy ideologues who would rename these dogs which were used for lion hunting in East Africa . |
| 4 | Most amphitheatres were very large and all important towns possessed their own which were used for displays of all kinds but particularly for gladiatorial combat and exhibitions . |
| 5 | Earlier remedies , which were used as tonics , restoratives or alternatives , were discarded as pharmaceutical flotsam by the tide of progress . |
| 6 | Study 5 used a methodology relatively similar to that of the Hughes and Cole ( 1986 ) laboratory study to describe the information which was available in some of the films which were used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 7 | Ro rose petals erm , were eaten , in fact , there was a thriving erm , industry near Paris for drying rose petals which were used in medicine , and also were used erm , to crystallise and to they were put in cakes and things like that . |
| 8 | From 1864 onwards , Miss Burnside wrote about 200 Christmas verses a year which were used in Christmas cards . |
| 9 | He avoided this problem by inventing and patenting in 1867 an entirely different type of multipolar machine , which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting . |
| 10 | There they could easily obtain coal which was used as fuel and as a raw material , various salts from a mine below the works and from brine wells , and large amounts of water from the River Tees . |
| 11 | The FLN was ordered to surrender buildings including the Zighout Youcef palace in Algiers , which was used as party headquarters . |
| 12 | The antibody is N terminally directed and shows no significant cross reaction with the related peptides , pancreatic polypeptide , and neuropeptide Y. Antiserum at a dilution of 1:160000 bound approximately 50% of the 1 fmol monoiodo-PYY , which was used as tracer . |
| 13 | Maskelyne took out patents on over forty commercial inventions , which included a cash register , patented in 1869 , which won a major award at the Paris exhibition , his 1889 typewriter , and his 1892 patent for a coin-operated lock for public lavatories , which was used in England until the 1950s . |
| 14 | Forget the texts I spent months researching and editing , or the nineteenth-century works from the collection of the Neue Gallery under the cloths , or the texts on the walls , or my use of black and white for nearly thirty years which was used in Kassel as a reference to the Documenta IX logo ; these are all mere details in the formalist 's eye . |
| 15 | A second planning battle looks set to break out over a building which was used by gospel worshippers in Darlington . |
| 16 | Also at ‘ Wallop is the original Hafner R-II — BAPC.10 — which was used by Raoul Hafner to perfect his rotorcraft ideas in Austria , he brought this pioneering machine with him when he moved to England . ) |
| 17 | A helmet ( the Rebel 's Cap ) hangs in the church to this day , perpetuating the lively story , which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his novel , Rokeby . |
| 18 | It is no accident that many slums were built on marshes : Mosside in Manchester , the Bogside in Londonderry , and much of the East End of London , where the suffix ‘ ey ’ to many of the place-names tell us that they were islands in Saxon times : Hackney , Stepney , and , most notorious of all , Bermondsey , where , in the 1850s , the river Neckinger , ‘ the colour of strong green tea ’ , flowed round Jacob 's Island , which was used by Dickens as a setting for Oliver Twist , and was described by him as ‘ the filthiest , the strangest , the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London ’ . |
| 19 | He fell into a trench on land which was used by children as a play area . |
| 20 | 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 . |