Example sentences of "[noun pl] used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ethos of the '70s would leave everybody in equally drab council estates ; denied the chance that high quality schools used to offer ; offered ‘ permissiveness ’ in place of standards and values ; and left to quarrel over how to divide an ever- diminishing cake . |
| 2 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 3 | We still say that that 's what the Frenchmen used to say it in French aye . |
| 4 | On the other hand , bilirubin concentration increases with the severity of liver cirrhosis and , in fact , is one of the variables used to evaluate this severity . |
| 5 | Estimates of the total market value of each segment may be compiled on the basis of those determining variables used to define and quantify the segment . |
| 6 | Sometimes the composition of the solders used to hold together the components of the objects can themselves be indicators of age . |
| 7 | I expect that 's why it has n't been re-published , ‘ Hitler is doing wonderful things , ’ the old English craftsmen used to say , sharing their wisdom with me and Tolliday my mate . |
| 8 | The Zunfthaus zur Waag , where the linen craftsmen used to meet , survives from the early seventeenth century , and the Zunfthaus zur Meise , built approximately a century later , was the meeting place of the wine merchants . |
| 9 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 10 | The sisters-in-law used to refer to themselves as Mary and Elizabeth , but they were never quite sure which was which , although big Bruce Mackenzie was quite sure — ‘ that there was nothing bloody immaculate about Tina 's conception , I can tell you that ! ’ |
| 11 | Course the inspectors used to come and examine them you see er , like |
| 12 | Erm the inspectors used to come round and it was the number of pupils he managed to get into the county school that added a lot of points to his record . |
| 13 | If the lads had any brains th the touts used to say yearlings , they , in the yard got any , yes , get the markings for us , you see . |
| 14 | The centre already has a cycle for the less able and two tandems used to transport disabled and blind visitors . |
| 15 | The implants used to replace the hip are manufactured for this market by a dozen or so companies , many of which are multinationals with their main marketing base in the United States . |
| 16 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 17 | It was one of two cars used to force an articualted lorry to stop on the A5 . |
| 18 | And of course the tram cars used to run along there . |
| 19 | The kitchen table was covered with homework , dictionaries , ring notebooks and ‘ All you Need to Know about the Russian Revolution ’ pulled out of the huge pieces of luggage Henrietta took every day to school , books used to erect tottering towers wherever the family was next about to eat . |
| 20 | This would enhance professional confidence in what schools are achieving and the methods used to do it . |
| 21 | The old preachers used to say : ‘ Have you found the place of abiding ? ’ |
| 22 | I used to enjoy the singing a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit . |
| 23 | In the early days of discovery medieval cartographers used to mark the empty , unexplored spaces on their maps as Where Dragons Be " . |
| 24 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 25 | That 's where the Norwegians and Swedes — well , sometimes the British sailors got in — but mostly foreigners used to go . |
| 26 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 27 | Many old-fashioned dog trainers used to believe that if dogs were left to fight it out , one would ultimately emerge victorious and remain dominant . |
| 28 | An early nineteenth-century parson wrote : In the last age some of the rusticated clergy used to favour the popular superstition , by pretending to the power of laying ghosts etc. etc . |
| 29 | Sometimes referred to as the " book-cover " or Koran design ( pl. 34 ) because it was evolved during the 15th and 16th centuries from the magnificent tooled leather covers used to bind the Koran ; these had themselves been inspired by the inside of a mosque dome , with its central boss and intricately decorated surround . |
| 30 | The remedies used to treat sick people are actually capable of producing similar symptoms and diseases to those present in the patient needing that remedy . |