Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you are so used to an unquestioned independence that you forget how many people do n't have it , people who , in human terms , Christian terms even , have just as much right to it as you do . |
| 2 | But she 's never used a phrase like that before . |
| 3 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 4 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 5 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 6 | A Raw linseed oil is lighter in colour than the boiled variety but they are both used in wood finishing . |
| 7 | In Canada and the United States there are coroners , but they are rarely used . |
| 8 | The lines of the formerly integrated drainage systems can be traced but they are only used by present-day floods in their upper tracts , so forming a characteristically disintegrated pattern . |
| 9 | But they are still used as nest-eggs and , in particular , they could find favour among directors with substantial interests in multi-nationals . |
| 10 | But they were also used architecturally , to add interest to the horizontal line of a cornice . |
| 11 | Not only were there flagstones underfoot but they were also used to line the hillside , to prevent minor earth slips covering the path . |
| 12 | But it is also used in some cases for rather trivial offences . |
| 13 | As the sobriquet implies , this is principally used by booksellers for acquisition and as a finding list , but it is also used by some librarians for selection purposes . |
| 14 | It can be mixed with basmati rice to give an attractive appearance , but it is generally used for stuffings for game . |
| 15 | Birch is a sustainable and fast-growing timber from northern Europe , but it is rarely used for fine furniture because of the skill required to convert the logs . |
| 16 | The natural function of the bassoon is to provide the bass of the woodwind group , but it is frequently used as a melodic instrument , both ‘ solo ’ and when doubled in the upper octave by another wind instrument or sometimes by the violins . |
| 17 | The many functions that have been proposed for it range from sound transmission to drilling holes in ice ; but it is really used in aggressive fighting among males . |
| 18 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 19 | Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information . |
| 20 | Not , not there is a side chapel there , the east chapel and that 's the catholic chapel but it 's also used by the non- catholic group . |
| 21 | But it 's only used in the bonny weather you see . |
| 22 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 23 | Technically , judicial review was available , but it was rarely used . |
| 24 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |
| 25 | There was a dining-table in there but it was never used for eating from . |
| 26 | Next to this bedroom was a smaller one , but it was never used . |
| 27 | It was always on show , but it was seldom used . |
| 28 | No one really knows its origins but it was certainly used therapeutically by the Ancient Egyptians , the Greeks and the Romans . |