Example sentences of "were use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the sharks in the estuary were used to solid , regular meals . |
| 2 | Evidently , people in this street were used to strange cars being parked and nobody had thought it worth while to ring the police , despite the fact that the doors bristled with Neighbourhood Watch signs . |
| 3 | ‘ Being in the country we were used to good fresh stuff . |
| 4 | The report says drugs were used to sedate troublesome patients . |
| 5 | Guisarmes ( top ) were used to great effect as thrusting and cutting weapons on long shafts whilst ( above ) the cultellus was used to administer the coup de grace to unhorsed knights , and the war scythe and glaive to pull the horseman from his saddle . |
| 6 | Ground launched missiles were used to great affect by the Allies during the gulf war . |
| 7 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 8 | As the idle beings they were in a group , the malais were used to last-minute arrangements and alterations , spontaneous changes and improvisation ; so it was n't as big a deal as if he 'd been , say , an Israeli or a German officer . |
| 9 | The nomes were used to large bodies of water . |
| 10 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 11 | These techniques were used during recent excavation at sites on the north bank of the Thames , where deep sequences of mud , sand and gravel , overlying Roman and Saxon timber structures , have been revealed . |
| 12 | Polyclonal anti-C/EBPδ antibodies were used on untransfected Hep3B cells in the presence ( + ) or absence ( - ) of IL-6 . |
| 13 | Conversion of the Manchester-Hadfield stub of the old Woodhead route from 1,500V DC operation to standard 25kV kissed goodbye to the eight 1954 Class 506s , ninety-two of which were used on Great Eastern services until 1982 . |
| 14 | To avoid contamination sterile reagents were used with new disposable pasteur pipettes for each addition and removal of washing solution . |
| 15 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 16 | The major trials which followed the movement ‘ to the people ’ were used with great skill by the accused and their defence lawyers to expose the incompetence and brutality of the police , to draw attention to the plight of the peasantry , and to win sympathy for the wretched poverty of many students . |
| 17 | er to raise two matters or comments rather than matters erm seating er , new cushions have now been purchased and were used with great success at the October production and Alan has asked whether there are any comments we can draw about the success or otherwise of the October production and whether the experiment is worth continuing . ? |
| 18 | During the war these derelict pits were used for various purposes ; Lee 's or Houlder pit became a bomb and ammunition store for the R.A.F. The top pit of Batchelors was used by the Home Guard as a rifle range , and for other weapon training . |
| 19 | White Greek marbles were used for interior work also coloured ones from Thessaly and areas near Istanbul . |
| 20 | In contrast , when tape-slide presentations were used for individual instruction , students found them more acceptable . |
| 21 | Woodcuts were used for cheap publications , like the chapbooks sold by chapmen or pedlars ; but these had crude illustrations . |
| 22 | The following solutions were used for endoscopic injection : for the epinephrine group , we injected 0.5–1.0 ml of 1:10000 epinephrine at 2–3 mm around the bleeder with a maximum volume of 15 ml ; for the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group , we injected the same volume of 1:10000 epinephrine followed by 0.3–0.5 ml of alcohol ( 99.8% ) around the bleeder with maximal volume of 3 ml . |
| 23 | Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service . |
| 24 | Transfer RNA ( tRNA ) , C1300 and HeLa RNA were used for negative controls . |
| 25 | The neighbourhood associations were used for administrative functions , but members were also encouraged to spy and report on fellow members to minimize disloyalty and unpatriotic behaviour , encouraging an atmosphere of mutual suspicion . |
| 26 | Ketamine hydrochloride ( Ketalar , Parke-Davis , United Kingdom ) and xylazin chloride ( Rompun , Bayer , Germany ) given intraperitoneally were used for general anaesthesia . |
| 27 | The same physiological selection criteria for operation were used for young and old patients alike . |
| 28 | Six classes were used for ulcerative colitis ( table II ) . |
| 29 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 30 | The median and minimum of the readings for each patient were used for intergroup comparisons and for assessment of the relationship between blood flow and endoscopic grade . |