Example sentences of "used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lloyd , 39 , a councillor who works on the Ford assembly line in Southampton , is used to hopeless cases : his first political action as a child was to take the newsboys on his street out on strike . |
| 2 | The report says drugs were used to sedate troublesome patients . |
| 3 | Here in the UK we are used to major variations in water chemistry from area to area despite this being only a small country ; the huge Amazon system , however , consists generally of soft and acid waters . |
| 4 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 5 | I shall start with a misunderstanding which the method of explanation adopted here is likely to give rise to among readers used to philosophical explanations of concepts such as authority being presented as accounts of the meanings of words . |
| 6 | Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are . |
| 7 | Access to quite large areas can be obtained in this way and negotiations may be held with estate officers used to legal agreements . |
| 8 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 9 | When people from this background find themselves in the middle of an industrial set-up , it is not easy for them to adjust their values or frames of reference , just as people from an industrial society , used to individual wages and jobs , would feel confused if suddenly thrust into a peasant society . |
| 10 | The child required and was used to cooked food . |
| 11 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 12 | This may prove tedious to those used to alternative leisure pursuits . |
| 13 | But they are just as difficult to read if you are used to political hypocrisy . |
| 14 | Afterwards , Mr Major said he was used to political turbulence and the ‘ rough and tumble ’ . |
| 15 | Used to young children , this variety is formally distinctive , with a special vocabulary , high pitch , loudness , slowness and exaggerated intonation contours . |
| 16 | The relationship between the popes and the religious houses could be used to papal advantage . |
| 17 | Both works have slow movements of exquisite and radiant beauty ( that of K.467 was used to memorable effect in the film Elvira Madigan ) . |
| 18 | Jonadab was used to implicit obedience . |
| 19 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 20 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
| 21 | The Behringer studio noise gate can be likened to a surgeon 's scalpel ; it 's a shining , finely-honed blade of a rack unit , innocent enough in the hands of the unwary , but capable of being used to lethal effect . |
| 22 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 23 | What is important is the idea that the newest and most powerful media , namely ads , might be used to beneficial ends . |
| 24 | Evidently , people in this street were used to strange cars being parked and nobody had thought it worth while to ring the police , despite the fact that the doors bristled with Neighbourhood Watch signs . |
| 25 | Ray Packwood 's pet bull mastiff Bess is used to strange animals coming home with her master so Caspar the Kinkajou was made to feel very welcome . |
| 26 | Oligo(dT) itself can be used to prime first strand synthesis of cDNA . |
| 27 | A second set of oligonucleotides , envSfifor ( 5'-TTT GAT CTC GAG CTC CTG CAG GGC CGG CTG GGC CGC ACT GGA GCC GGG CGA AGC AGT-3' , complementary to MoMLV env nts 5893-5873 with a 36nt 5' overhang encoding a SfiI site and 21nt complementary to the 5' tail of envNotrev ) and revMLVpol ( 5'-AAT TAC ATT GTG CAT ACA GAC CC-3' , complementary to MoMLV pol nts 5277-5249 ) was used to prime amplification of a 702bp fragment from pCRIP ( and encoding upstream of env codon 7 ) . |
| 28 | A parish used to simple ways of ceremony might be confronted with a new vicar who suddenly elaborated the ritual ; or the opposite . |
| 29 | There has been a trend in recent years for manufacturers to shorten their channels in order to control more effectively the distribution of their products , particularly where expensive advertising has been used to pre-sell the goods to the consumer . |
| 30 | Then on an embarrassed laugh , he added , ‘ I 'm not used to polite society . ’ |