Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] used [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound . |
| 2 | Once an elite has established itself , it may well find itself being emulated or used as a reference group by ‘ lower ’ social classes . |
| 3 | The principal assets for which roll-over relief is available under ss152-160 TCGA 1992 are land and buildings occupied and used for the purposes of the vendor 's trade , fixed plant and machinery and goodwill . |
| 4 | When you 're presenting plans , stick to the point — two good reasons for doing something are better than ten because your last reason is probably the weakest , so can be attacked and used as an excuse for a refusal . |
| 5 | Despite extensive damage it was later rebuilt and used as a roller corn mill . |
| 6 | Single-stranded oligonucleotides describing the desired changes were synthesised and used in a mutagenesis protocol described by Kunkel ( 23 ) . |
| 7 | If the prime task of the teacher is to help children acquire nationally agreed learning skills and to deepen their understanding of the concepts which underpin particular academic disciplines , then the way subject matter is presented and used in the classroom requires to be reappraised . |
| 8 | It is further alleged that the last-but-one head of the secret police quietly sold to his wife and family a mansion which the service had commandeered and used as a torture centre in the 1970s . |
| 9 | The arguments used by the radicals against the continued existence of the independent sector were now turned and used against the continued existence of grammar schools and direct grant schools ( which were equally selective and even more predominantly middle-class ) . |
| 10 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 11 | A series of drawings may be selected and used in a slide show , making the program ideal for use as a presentation tool You can even import graphics files in a variety of formats from other applications for this purpose . |
| 12 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 13 | Many years later , this area was sub-divided and used as a physiotherapy department at the North Wing until in 1986 , it was opened out again — for use as a sewing-room . |
| 14 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 15 | This is usually tucked away under a fold of skin but it can be quickly erected and used as a weapon . |
| 16 | To have to compete with Third World labour costs would produce massive unrest in a population already urbanised and used to the standards of a Western industrial society . |
| 17 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 18 | The clay exposed by the peat digging was also excavated and used in the manufacture of bricks and pottery . |
| 19 | At Cable Street the counter-demonstrators broke into a builder 's yard and a lorry loaded with bricks was overturned and used as a barricade . |
| 20 | The village school , built in 1870 , is now closed and used for the village hall . |
| 21 | The federal parliament has now agreed to allow some 300 of the pesticide formulations to be both sold and used in the eastern states until the end of 1994 . |
| 22 | Of all the data types described in this book , Landsat data are the only kind that are interpreted and used in the form of pictures or images . |
| 23 | You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration . |
| 24 | Yes , both bacteria and animals are already being engineered to produce specific compounds which can be extracted and used for the benefit of farm animals or man . |
| 25 | Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs . |
| 26 | From the first century AD , the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans , so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel . |
| 27 | They were highly regarded by the farmers , both for their local knowledge and their strenuous efforts to have this knowledge understood and used by the MAFF scientists in Whitehall . |
| 28 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 29 | So while changing herself , the Family Development Nurse has to facilitate this change at community level in order that the expertise and knowledge of parents can be recognised and used in a wider context in the community and in equal partnership with the professional . |
| 30 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |