Example sentences of "[vb base] be used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if developing countries dislike being used as illicit rubbish dumps , they must devote much more cash and effort to improving the quality of their own waste-disposal facilities , and preventing illegal dumping . |
| 2 | The concept of entities that appear for only an instant and then disappear was used by Buddhists to prove that all is merely appearance and that absolute reality does not fall within the domain of the intellect . |
| 3 | A newer method is titration with mercuric nitrate in acid solution , diphenylcarbazone being used as indicator . |
| 4 | What is more , we hate being used as political footballs by cynical politicians . |
| 5 | A little over ninety per cent I suppose , and erm , I 'm not sure if you got fourteen or fifteen carat , so fourteen I think is used with the continental standard and the lowest continental standard now are fifteen used to be our inbetween standard , very rarely used . |
| 6 | The anomalous finite do is used in the affirmative for purposes of emphasising the verb element : I do like strawberries ! ; |
| 7 | If do is used in the past tense , therefore , the infinitive 's event is explicitly affirmed to have taken place in time in the past ; compare : ( 1a ) I ate my porridge . |
| 8 | If do is used in the non-past , the infinitive 's event is situated in the first moment of the non-past time-sphere : ( 2 ) She does own a Porsche . |
| 9 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 10 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 11 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 12 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 13 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 14 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 16 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 17 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 18 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 19 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 20 | Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food . |
| 21 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 22 | In most of its occurrences , thank is used with the to infinitive : ( 199 ) I 'll thank you to pass the decanter . |
| 23 | Works on areal geology , mineralogy , and the applied earth sciences may be valuable in their own way , but the information they contain is used in a different way , and by different readers , from that in geophysics . |
| 24 | The term simulate is used in this chapter to mean mimic or copy a real event or situation . |
| 25 | In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda . |
| 26 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 27 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 28 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that only users who exist in LIFESPAN , and have been specified at the USER/MODULE/DC ACCESS keywords , have been used at the MAP USERNAME keyword . |
| 29 | Drift-nets were first developed by the Japanese , and have been used since 1905 . |
| 30 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |