Example sentences of "[vb past] be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harmonic sequence I mentioned is used as a rift . |
| 2 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 3 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 4 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 5 | He 'd been used to having chars and minions running round him . |
| 6 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 7 | ‘ When sound came in , in 1928 , Keaton had signed to MGM and began being used as a vehicle for really average production-line gags . |
| 8 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 9 | The cause was either the butane gas heater or the electric lead lamp Mr Whitley had been using under the car , or both , setting fire to petrol vapours . |
| 10 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 11 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 12 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 13 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 14 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 15 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 16 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 17 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 18 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 19 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 20 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 21 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 22 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 23 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 24 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 25 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 26 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 27 | She recognised the stitching that had been used on the elephant . |
| 28 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 29 | Then came that great morning when the newly made electron microscope had been used on polio slides . |
| 30 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |