Example sentences of "[be] used [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community can also be used to refer to various collectivities of people supposedly characterised by distinct ways of life : for example , the Shetlander community , the churchgoing community , the incomer community . |
| 2 | Those languages which have number and gender distinctions in their pronoun system are less constrained in using this cohesive device , since different pronouns can be used to refer to different entities within a text with less possibility of confusion . |
| 3 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 4 | If a conversation gets started which taps into a flow of ideas from the past , sometimes this can be used to relate to current needs . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , as Wensley ( 1981 ) argues , the portfolio grids must not be used to suggest to non-financial experts that the company must be a cash recycling machine ignoring the external market as a source of funds . |
| 6 | I would say to the people of the Yorkshire Dales that the problem has not gone away , and this time should be used to write to British Rail and British Steel , and to call upon local authorities to get together to retain this line and to stop heavy lorries disrupting in the Dales . |
| 7 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |