Example sentences of "[to-vb] be used [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 2 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 3 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 4 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 5 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 6 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |