Example sentences of "used [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went , when we were staying in York , we went to erm used to go to a pub for our meals did n't we ? |
| 2 | It is extremely important , because of the price and resale differences between items from the various countries , to ask specifically whether the name used refers to the rug 's place of origin or its design . |
| 3 | In other areas , however , land could be used for arable , arable and pasture , pasture , or wood , and how it was used depended to a large extent on the proximity of settlements and in what sort of economy the local farmers were engaged . |
| 4 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 5 | The average number of labelled cells ( x ) per 50 hemicrypts in the proliferation zone was used to extrapolate to the total crypt size . |
| 6 | It can also specify the password to be used to obtain to the module . |
| 7 | For example where a field leading to a river could only be used according to a sign for ‘ Parking — Members of the Walton Angling Club only ’ , it would constitute a private field . |
| 8 | For longer trips , there are travel sickness tablets especially for dogs and even those made for human consumption can be very beneficial if used according to the instructions for dosing a child . |
| 9 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan mentioned a wider range of headhunters , naming Heidrick and Struggles and a number of smaller search firms , used according to the salary level of the appointment . |
| 10 | The set contains two short videos , one audio cassette , five manuals , several leaflets and posters , some or all of which can be used according to the needs of different groups . |
| 11 | When describing the sclerites and regions of the thorax the prefixes pro , meso and meta are used according to the segment to which the reference applies . |
| 12 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 13 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 14 | Before the invention and perfection of valves , horns in all keys were used owing to the narrow range of notes available on the natural horn . |
| 15 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 16 | Sometimes the phrase " celebration of diversity " is used to point to the affective as well as cognitive impact which this approach would like to see in pupils . |
| 17 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 18 | DH numbers used refer to the previously described hypersensitivity sites which are present during all stages of B cell development ( 26 ) . |
| 19 | And in his last Budget , in 1989 , he capped the salary that can be used to contribute to a pension scheme at £60,000 . |
| 20 | In this way , the dictionary , being a general-purpose source of knowledge designed for use by non-experts , is being used to contribute to the recognition of text that is both highly specific and intended for a specific audience only . |
| 21 | There is an enormous literature on this topic , but mostly written by political scientists and sociologists , not lawyers ; and there is disagreement about what exactly the phenomenon is , largely because the term is used to refer to a variety of different arrangements . |
| 22 | Notice that the term semantic constituent is not used to refer to a meaning only , but to a form-plus-meaning complex ; that is to say , a semantic constituent is a meaningful form ( the precise sense of meaningful intended here will be clarified below ) with a determinate grammatical function . |
| 23 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 24 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 25 | The term " ocular dominance " ( or " eyedness ' ) has been used to refer to a number of different phenomena ( Money , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | The term ‘ non-Lambertian ’ is used to refer to a non-ideal surface which does not reflect energy equally in all directions . |
| 27 | Less broadly than this , it can be used to refer to a disenchantment from more specific areas of a person 's life , such as his/her work , or from politics , or from religion , and so on . |
| 28 | For example , if the temperature of a beaker of water is raised from an initial temperature T1 to a final temperature T2 , the change in temperature is given by The Greek letter ( called delta ) is used to refer to a change in a quantity . |
| 29 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 30 | A demonstrative is used to refer to a temporal aspect . |