Example sentences of "were use [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 2 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 3 | Er and is the sort of standard one that we were using at Aston when these handouts were written erm but you should find that the same sorts of things are discussed in or in Atkinson . |
| 4 | This left Aberystwyth packed and buses were used past Newtown . |
| 5 | Senior management posts in nationalized industries were used under Franco to reward politicians and military men for services rendered to the regime ( Medhurst 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 6 | Seven states have completely banned hypnotised witness from testifying and one allows such testimony only if presumed safeguards such as video-taping were used during hypnosis . |
| 7 | Cold-chain monitors were used during shipment and storage . |
| 8 | New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud . |
| 9 | In the Blackpool fleet , they became Nos. 93–98 ‘ , and were used on Layton as well as the Promenade , until 1933 . |
| 10 | Non-parametric methods were used with significance determined at the 5% level . |
| 11 | To achieve the extremely low power consumption , D-fet active loads were used with gate widths of only 5mm . |
| 12 | Phases calculated as described ( Table 1 ) were used with amplitudes from the λ 1 data to generate electron density maps using the CCP4 suite of programs . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 14 | The report also mentioned contamination problems during the manufacture of the anti-allergic eye product Opticrom and suggests that ‘ beer kegs ’ were used for storage during the manufacture of Imferon , an injectable iron . |
| 15 | The ground-floor rooms were used for storage , cooking and other work : from them stairways rose to the living and sleeping quarters upstairs . |
| 16 | These arches were used for storage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Locomotives were used for goods , and passenger trains were pulled by horses at first ( on the same tracks ) . |
| 19 | Under Somoza , there were scarcely any official prisons as such ; rather , the National Guard command posts were used for detention . |
| 20 | They argue that long-term technological changes mean that manufacturing needs more space per worker , and also often larger plots , and that this both puts cities at a disadvantage in relation to other areas and means that , even if all available urban land were used for manufacturing , there would still be a decline in employment . |
| 21 | During one practical session when the kitchens were used for survey purposes , booklice were actually found in the flour storage bins . |
| 22 | III were used for accumulation in Dept . |
| 23 | ( The cases all concern referees known as " valuers " , but the same difficulty could arise with experts if the umpire procedure were used for experts , which modern practice has made rare : see 9.8.2 . ) |
| 24 | Separate questionnaires were used for mothers and fathers . |
| 25 | Whilst the costs of conservation can be measured relatively easily ( for example , the direct costs of site management or the production possibilities if the land were used for agriculture or forestry ) , there are almost no tangible measures of the benefits of conservation . |
| 26 | Modern economics and technology have created a throw-away society based on costs and profits , and the days when only best quality woods were used for joinery are long gone . |
| 27 | Standard procedures were used for plasmid DNA manipulations ( 13 ) . |
| 28 | Bovis Homes points out that the exterior and lobby area were used for location shots , but not the interiors . |
| 29 | Twenty-five cycles were used to amplify K1 mRNA and 30 cycles were used for I-A α -chain and E-cadherin mRNAs . |
| 30 | 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 . |