Example sentences of "used [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small charges are made on the various services offered , although up to 15 cheques can be used each quarter free of charge . |
| 2 | 62.5 million gallons of water are used each day in Lothian |
| 3 | Nearly four million animals were used each year for experiments , eighty per cent of which were rodents , which gave the activists a problem as rats do n't have good PR potential . |
| 4 | This is the name used each time the package module is transferred to and from the user 's directory . |
| 5 | This requires the user to enter a unique name , together with a valid charge code so that LIFESPAN can determine where to store its copy of the package , and a filename which will be used each time the package is transferred to or from LIFESPAN . |
| 6 | Rosslyn Park have now used 32 players this season . |
| 7 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 8 | The evidence just presented seems to suggest that the use of a food-reinforced procedure makes context-specificity more likely , and certainly other successful demonstrations of the effect have used appetitive conditioning ( e.g. Honey , Willis , and Hall ( 1990 ) , who studied autoshaping in pigeons ; Peck and Bouton ( 1990 ) , experiment 2 , who measured the ‘ head jerk ’ CR of rats trained with a food reinforcer ) . |
| 9 | The relation with smoking was most apparent in those women who had never used oral contraception . |
| 10 | The effect of smoking was most apparent in those who had never used oral contraception . |
| 11 | In that way it has used economic means to promote the central political objective of ’ ever closer union among the people of Europe ’ . |
| 12 | While admitting that he had used private investigators in the course of his business and political activities , Perot on June 24 claimed that the recent spate of stories on the issue would have made " Hitler 's propaganda chief proud " . |
| 13 | Mr Bates stressed that this was the first time his family had used private health care . |
| 14 | She could do without a powerful , handsome French stepbrother , especially one who had used private detectives to find her . |
| 15 | He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling . |
| 16 | He should have used that opportunity ; especially as new laws will anyway be needed before 1995 to implement European Community directives on investment services . |
| 17 | ( Of course , Boy would never have used that word , husband , that 's my word . |
| 18 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 19 | Because I 've never used that word before , he 'll say something completely pathetic . |
| 20 | It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them . |
| 21 | I laughed at the times people had used that sentence to me . |
| 22 | But I think the best recommendation is when big business has used that company to produce a video for themselves , you know the companies with the big budgets and so on it 's an indication of the quality |
| 23 | On the other hand he will be able to answer questions such as ‘ is the door behind you to the left or to the right ? ’ because he has used that door and needs to use it again . |
| 24 | Before we did , no one had used that door for years . |
| 25 | Whitbread and Bass have both used that expression . |
| 26 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 27 | I was ill , but he did n't know actually that I had used that method . |
| 28 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 29 | The media love to compare controlled hot fusion with ‘ harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth ’ , and I have used that idiom in this chapter heading ; yet it is not really true . |
| 30 | Nine months on , Jill and her business partner Yvonne have used that cloth and yarn to create their own exclusive range of clothes called ’ Mohair Classics ’ . |