Example sentences of "were [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that would pave the way for a more heavyweight challenger later — tactics which were successfully used to dump Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | Metal extraction was difficult , sources of non-ferrous ores are particularly scarce and these , and the smelting sites , were often far removed from where the majority of the artefacts were eventually used . |
| 3 | A few sequences were eventually used in BT in modified or abbreviated form . |
| 4 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 5 | As in stone-built barns , slits were widely used in brick structures and they were generally arranged in rows . |
| 6 | Plastics — that here leave little to the imagination — were widely used in fashion . |
| 7 | A Frankish stirrup has been discovered by archaeologists , but contemporary records do not confirm that horse charges and similar tactics were widely used . |
| 8 | But the great majority of the class , including all those with typical saw-blade profiles ( graptoloids ) which were widely used in the dating of rocks , certainly lacked any kind of rooting structure . |
| 9 | Twenty years later at least four major families of drugs were widely used , as well as a considerable number of supporting agents which were believed to help some patients in particular circumstances . |
| 10 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 11 | The committee recognised that both ‘ f ’ and ‘ ph ’ spellings were widely used in English texts and made no specific recommendation . |
| 12 | Whether working in an expansive phase in which the techniques of ‘ agitation ’ were widely used or in a ‘ consolidationist ’ period in which ‘ pressure from without ’ assumed less importance , antislavery needed to maximise its influence in parliament and the administration in order to translate aspiration into policy and ensure that policy was effectively executed . |
| 13 | The earliest period in which garden ornaments were widely used in England was the Tudor age , when wooden columns painted in the armorial colours of the garden 's owner were surmounted by carved beasts of heraldic significance . |
| 14 | These were widely used as disinfectants and the crystals in particular for treatment of snakebite after Dr Lacerda recommended potassium permanganate for this purpose in 1881 . |
| 15 | Fish , for example , were widely used . |
| 16 | Reports of the importation of 2,000 Israeli Uzi submachine guns and Galil assault rifles three weeks before the coup , and which were widely used by rebel soldiers , lent credence to this view . |
| 17 | While engravings of Queen Victoria were widely used to advertise Bovril , soap etc , most manufacturers drew the line at depicting the royal personage on their actual packaging . |
| 18 | PCBs were widely used in electrical transformers and capacitors until they were banned in 1977 . |
| 19 | In parts of the Southern Province and central highlands they were little used , and human power was employed instead . |
| 20 | Richard Donner , who directed Superman , the Movie ( 1978 ) and started Superman II ( 1981 ) before being replaced by Richard Lester , says that travelling mattes were little used |
| 21 | Statistics , he claimed , were incompetently used , while sanitary science still perpetuated the pernicious myth that questions of back-to-back housing , privies and breast-feeding were more important than the hereditary character of the parents . |
| 22 | They were mostly used to discriminate between doubtful grammar school entrants . |
| 23 | He claimed that there were places in the past where ‘ men 's lives were longer , when plain homely diet and bodily labour were much used , and shorter when more civiliz 'd times delighted in idleness , and wanton luxury ’ . |
| 24 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 25 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 26 | Supplies of red stones were already available in the form of garnets , and it is known that these were much used by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers . |
| 27 | Latin motets , particularly the shorter and simpler ones by Lassus and Gallus ( Handl ) , were much used by the Lutheran church . |
| 28 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 29 | The photocopying services were much used ; more than 160,000 copies were made in total , over 6,000 of these being supplied by post or fax . |
| 30 | This was an additional trimming to the single horse-mowing machines ( 3ft. –4ft wide ) which were daily used on the course by the club 's own employees . |