Example sentences of "but they [be] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So are heaps of other traps , but they 're used , more 's the pity , on poor animals that are doing no wrong . |
| 2 | For example , washing-machines enable individual households to have their washing done more quickly , but they are used inefficiently . |
| 3 | It contains similar rhythmic elements , but they are used in different ways . |
| 4 | These ‘ search questions ’ are the usual means by which one ‘ tells ’ identity in Northern Ireland , but they were used particularly by policemen and women to tell , as they interpret it , which ‘ sort ’ of Catholic the field-worker was . |
| 5 | Such images were reworkings of arguments already used about Toxteth in 1981 and Brixton in 1981 , but they were used more widely than in 1980–1 . |