Example sentences of "[adv] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 2 | Breakaway-type sinkers are only used during rough conditions . |
| 3 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 4 | The living-room has a lived-in feel about it and the parlour , so immaculately tidy was so obviously only used for special occasions . |
| 5 | These days they are only used for ceremonial occasions . |
| 6 | After a trial of loop ileostomy in totally stapled restorative proctocolectomy loop ileostom is now only used in selected cases ( four in the last 18 cases after closure of the trial ) . |
| 7 | As a foundation material it is only used by nomadic and some village weavers . |
| 8 | Echo-location , or sonar as it is called , is only used by small insect-eating bats . |
| 9 | On learning that the French called them disparagingly " boites d'allumettes " — matchboxes and that they were usually only used by poor Annamese , the senator had suddenly elected to ride in one with his sons and meet the Frenchman at the market . |
| 10 | The lines of the formerly integrated drainage systems can be traced but they are only used by present-day floods in their upper tracts , so forming a characteristically disintegrated pattern . |
| 11 | It should also include an analysis of what modern people understand by the very concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , for it is a concept , which is not only used by social scientists , but which is also significant in ordinary discourse . |
| 12 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 13 | Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music . |
| 14 | You 're so used to cold that it might upset you . ’ |
| 15 | In a country so used to dismal performances the prospect of a player scoring with such consummate style was rare indeed . |
| 16 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 17 | We have got so used to untold wrath and destruction , but now God again brings water gushing from the rock , and the people are saved . |
| 18 | However , it has to be so used with great care , and preferably only by trained and professional medical advisers . |
| 19 | The metal is much used for decorative ironwork . |
| 20 | The piccolo is very rarely used completely ‘ solo ’ , but is much used to double other woodwind instruments at the octave or double octave above . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 23 | This Weberian line has been much used in International Relations , especially in the subfield known as Foreign Policy Analysis . |
| 24 | In the generation of the inventors of red-figure the Lysippides ( Andokides ) Painter and a companion of Psiax , the Antimenes Painter , head the principal workshops , specialising in neck-amphorae and hydriai , shapes not much used in early red-figure . |
| 25 | Variants of this Radburn design have been much used in post-war Britain , so that culs-de-sac and loop-streets are familiar elements in post-war housing areas . |
| 26 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 27 | The bulk of the building is in Marnhull stone , quarried locally and much used in local villages such as Buckthorn Weston , Todber and West Orchard . |
| 28 | Lourenço Marques was a gateway to both South and Central Africa , and Beira and Lobito Bay were the prime portals of the routes into British Central Africa and the Congo , much used by European settlers and tourists . |
| 29 | There might be some advantage if anthropologists regularly wrote about " cosmology " rather than about " religion " , if only because the former word is not much used by ordinary speakers of ordinary English . |
| 30 | A four-part mass , probably dating from the 1520s , uses as its cantus firmus the popular French tune ‘ L'homme armé ’ , the only known British use of a theme much used by continental composers . |