Example sentences of "were use [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six unco-ordinated offices were used for receiving revenue : the old Exchequer , the King 's Chamber — by now reverting to its old function of a domestic household treasury — the Court of Wards and Liveries , the Duchy of Lancaster , the Court of Augmentations , and the Court of First Fruits . |
| 2 | Annual sales statistics provided by Alko Ltd were used for evaluating the consumption of various alcoholic beverages in Finland between 1960–89 . |
| 3 | Camels were used for moving railway-trucks round the Pokrovsk yards . |
| 4 | Two approaches were used for ordering single-copy hybridisation probes : one was based on the simulated annealing algorithm to order all probes , and another on inferring the minimum-spanning subset of the probes using a heuristic filtering procedure . |
| 5 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 6 | It was navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons , mostly keels which were used for transporting coal and lime to Leven and took away corn and various commodities made in the village such as candles , rope , and a certain type of brick . |
| 7 | On enquiring their purpose , the boatman explained they were used for drilling by the Orangemen on the estate , but they were passed on each week to the Sinn Feiners for their drill night ! |
| 8 | When it was ready they each fetched a huge bronze pan , the ones that were used for cooking rice at weddings , or boiling barley for making raksi . |
| 9 | The documents appear to have been working papers that were used for setting price caps for the authorities . |
| 10 | ( It was , of course , the load at peak times which imposed the highest costs on the system , partly because it was then that the least efficient power stations were used for generating , but principally because , since electricity could not be stored , it was the peak load which determined expenditure on new capacity . ) |
| 11 | Late that century Alfred the Great noted , with apparent surprise , that horses were used for ploughing in Norway . |
| 12 | In the 1920s there was no running water in bedrooms , and copper hot-water cans and jugs were used for filling and placing night and morning in the bedrooms for washing . |
| 13 | Also , with no common denominator for fixing rates , different criteria were used for measuring performance — tonnage , yardage , cubic measures , number of operations completed , etc. — and so contradictory interests developed . |
| 14 | Bones were used for making explosives , glue and paint for aeroplane mark markings , and proved the most difficult of all to collect . |
| 15 | The er apparatus , measures , slabs , mortars , that were used for making compounds or dispensing medicines . |
| 16 | They were used for pumping but they were bulky machines and were never installed underground . |
| 17 | The grids were used for assessing the position most appropriate for bisection of the crypts ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 18 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 19 | Cattle , especially buffaloes , were used for cultivating and threshing rice . |
| 20 | The cutouts were used for matching to the shoes . |
| 21 | Most computers were used either for word processing or simple information storage tasks ; very few were used for analysing business trends or problems . |
| 22 | The barns were used for storing timber ready for use in the mills . |
| 23 | It was clear that the premises were used for viewing works of art stored there by Capricorn and that it controlled access to the vault . |
| 24 | An archaic English word for the ankles is huckle-bones , and these huckle-bones , and knuckle-bones ( usually from sheep ) , were used for playing dice . |
| 25 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 26 | If the index is computed using ‘ stale ’ prices , it is possible that the no-arbitrage condition appears to be violated , although if current prices were used in computing the index there would be no violation . |
| 27 | All available studies were used in examining the correlations between the scan score and the CDAI and Simple Index . |
| 28 | These criteria were used in selecting the sample . |
| 29 | Published and unpublished lists were used in compiling the necessarily limited but , it is hoped , representative selection of Gaelic names that appears here , and help was given by Gaelic speakers in the Outer Hebrides and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Darwin 's primary sexual characters were those connected with the act of reproduction itself while secondary sexual characters were used in acquiring mating partners . |