Example sentences of "[be] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | You qualify out of that as an acting corporal , then you 're used by other classes ; for example , as a helper or decoy in staged attacks . |
| 2 | ‘ So are heaps of other traps , but they 're used , more 's the pity , on poor animals that are doing no wrong . |
| 3 | The layout of the Alpha 2.0 is n't the simplest to get to grips with without some help — especially if you 're used to such simple machines as the Alesis Quadraverb — and the fact that the manual seems to require a PhD in logistics to understand just makes it all the more frustrating . |
| 4 | I shall be the director but you will work in the way you 're used to and as you think fit . |
| 5 | We 're used to that , though . |
| 6 | We 're used to the sharp cracks of lightning and the belch of thunder issuing from the belly of the sky . |
| 7 | It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't accept that our products damage teeth as long as they 're used properly , ’ said spokesman Nick Attenborough . |
| 9 | WE 'RE used to Tania Bryer facing the camera , so here 's a rear view of the TV-am weathergirl . |
| 10 | Secondhand , of course , but we 're used to that . ’ |
| 11 | Paving slabs may have shaped edges and a textured face , both of which will be visible if they 're used as treads . |
| 12 | ‘ It may not be what you 're used to but it 's better to get things straight from the start , is n't it ? |
| 13 | Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes . |
| 14 | they do n't , it does n't bother them at all right , they 're used under |
| 15 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 16 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think they 're used to people calling in the middle of the night , ’ said Lydia , beginning to laugh again . |
| 18 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |
| 19 | Well , it 's not what we 're used to at Hoggatt 's , senior staff knocking each other about . |
| 20 | It it 's that what you 're used |
| 21 | The mines inspectorate later cleared them of the cause , usually though they 're used where there are thick coal walls or pillars . |
| 22 | They 're used by the South , Tyneside Local Authority Branch to help buy a camcorder for the Sullivan member who 's recently undergone surgery to remove a tumour from his brain . |
| 23 | The other thing that tends to throw people the first time they every do ad advocacy is that you 're going to talk to somebody who will not talk to you , who will not s possibly even smile at you , who wo n't give you the usual feedback that we 're u that we 're used to when we 're talking to someone . |
| 24 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |
| 25 | So we we 're used |
| 26 | We call it the life cover charge , or technically , er , a phrase I 'm sure you 're used it , the mortality reduction . |
| 27 | Now they used something called a tachistoscope , I 'm not sure about the spelling of that , which you do n't come across these days , it tends to be computers that 're used . |
| 28 | Erm and it 's different from site to site , but I can , the things that you can normally control are the labour and how they 're used and the plant and how it 's used . |
| 29 | Back on dry land , the rushes are dried out before they 're used in the workshop near Wantage . |
| 30 | They 're used to make the goal . |