Example sentences of "[noun] was used [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , the symbolic value of the wedding ring was used by this teacher to communicate the values associated with marriage and the family that had been discussed by the deputy head in the previous interview . |
| 2 | ‘ The fact that my boat was used in this smuggling attempt is going to take some living down . ’ |
| 3 | The term was used in this sense by Lord Cairns in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 4 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 5 | The LICOR machine was used in this experiment and the Delta-T in a later experiment which produced a characteristic of area against age of plant . |
| 6 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 7 | To order the cosmid library of S.pombe , the PTS map established by previously ordering the YAC library was used in this way . |
| 8 | Since lack of coordination was a major factor in his problem , a modified form of acupuncture which can correct a disturbed energy flow was used in this case . |
| 9 | Local authority capital spending was used in this way as an economic regulator throughout the Keynesian period , 1945–76 , by both Conservative and Labour governments . |
| 10 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 11 | More complex carpentry was used on this scale on shields . |
| 12 | No filtration was used at this stage . |
| 13 | No white was used at this stage — only the white reflecting from the ground |
| 14 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 15 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 16 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |