Example sentences of "use [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 2 | The tube used was a multifenestrated sump tube with a second channel for infusing phenol red into the proximal stomach and a third lumen for equilibration of intragastic and atmospheric pressure . |
| 3 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 4 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 5 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 6 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit . |