Example sentences of "used be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system , of greater barbarity can hardly be imagined ; the country being generally so wet , the means to air and dry it here used are , to exclude the sun and wind by the tall screens of underwood and forest around every field , and these being so small , a great number are so wood-locked , that it is a little surprising how the corn can ever be ripened . |
| 2 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 3 | It is treated by a short course of drugs , the main one used being metronidazole . |
| 4 | Privately the words he used were ‘ I 'll be jiggered . |
| 5 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 6 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 7 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 8 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
| 9 | The terms used were ESN(S) , or severely educationally sub-normal , and ESN(M) , variously used to describe mild , moderate or medium handicaps . |
| 10 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 11 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 12 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 13 | Harrison felt that the solutions used were too strong and suggested that the containers of irrigating fluid should be no more than three feet above the patient 's pelvis , in contrast to the ten feet that had been the norm . |
| 14 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 15 | The paddles they used were the very narrow bladed ones like the Inuit sea kayak paddles . |
| 16 | The flowers used were pieces of conifer and some pink heather , with red and white hawthorn flowers to give added colour , plus a little white alyssum . |
| 17 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 18 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 19 | Main types used were the Airspeed Oxford , Avro Anson , Fairey Battle and the Northrop Nomad . |
| 20 | Antibodies used were Tû101 against HLA-A2 ( ref. 28 ) , Tû109 against HLA-Bw4 ( ref. 29 ) , and 2.06 against HLA-DR , -DP and -DQ ( ref. 30 ) , detected by fluorescein isothiocyanate ( FITC ) -conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG ( Sigma ) . |
| 21 | PCR primers used were : srICAM-1 , 5'-CTAGAGAACCCACTGCTTAAC-3' ( CDM8FSP ) and 5'-GATCGGATCCACTTACCTGTAAAGGTCTGGAGCTGGTAGGGGGC-3 ; srICAM-2 , 5'-GATCAAGCTTTCCCTGCGAGCCCGTGGAGACTGC-3' and 5'-GATCGGATCCACTTACCTGTCTGGCTGTCCGACACAGGCTCATA-3' ; srICAM-3 , CDM8FSP and 5'-GATCAGATCTACTTACCTGTCGACGGGGGG-GTCACGGGCAGGAC-3' ; srMUC-18 ( ref. 26 ) , CDM8FSP and 5'-ACGGATCCACTTACCTGTCCGGCTCTCCGGCTCCGGCAGCTT-3' . |
| 22 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 25 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 26 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 27 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 28 | The sources used were : national newspapers ; Jane 's Defence Weekly ; Soldier ; Gunner ; Guards Division Journal/Magazine ; International Defence Review ; Lloyd 's List ; US Naval Institute Proceedings ; Ships Monthly ; Shipping Today and Yesterday ; RAF PR Bulletins ; Aircraft Illustrated ; Air Forces Monthly ; Air International ; Aviation News ; Air Frame and Hansard . |
| 29 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 30 | The tools used were most likely to have been produced by the village blacksmith and would have included saws , chisels , special shaped gouges , templates for mouldings and various sized drills and scrapers . |