Example sentences of "[noun pl] used [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harrison felt that the solutions used were too strong and suggested that the containers of irrigating fluid should be no more than three feet above the patient 's pelvis , in contrast to the ten feet that had been the norm . |
| 2 | One possible explanation for the lack of correlation between risk and either normality or speed in the Groeger and Chapman study could be that the subset of 24 stimuli used were not characteristic of the whole 60 . |
| 3 | Clearly Study 2 differs from Study 1 in many more ways than the fact that subjects were not actually driving — the range of situations used was dramatically different , individual junctions were repeated , there was no obvious navigational context , and so on . |
| 4 | The culture of the features used was overwhelmingly middle class and European : the cookery columns , for example , assumed the reader lived in a house with a gas or electric oven . |
| 5 | The tools used were most likely to have been produced by the village blacksmith and would have included saws , chisels , special shaped gouges , templates for mouldings and various sized drills and scrapers . |