Example sentences of "[was/were] used [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 2 | Nearly four million animals were used each year for experiments , eighty per cent of which were rodents , which gave the activists a problem as rats do n't have good PR potential . |
| 3 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 4 | This measure was used twelve times by Raymond Barre ( 1978 to 1981 ) ; ten times under Mauroy and Fabius ( 1981 to 1966 ) ; seven times in 1986 alone ( Chirac ) . |
| 5 | Possibly Northern audiences found the French an affectation as the original subtitle , the Excelsiors , was used many times . |
| 6 | The craft section includes Heaviest Scones ( cement was used last year ) and The Fruit Cake With The Most Fruit At The Bottom . |
| 7 | For the next sequence , Crawford and the Suzuki had to jump into a pond ; a three-foot ramp was used this time . |
| 8 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |