Sentence examples for used to bear from inspiring English sources

The bolt with high strength and cable bearing high pretension force were used to bear the pressure on the anchoring structure.

Swiss banks' hierarchies, for instance, used to bear a resemblance to those of the country's army, with strong connections between the two.

Howard Lawrence, a Briarcliff resident who is manager of the band that used to bear his name, said his group was the first to register the name Westchester Jazz Orchestra in 1995.

Worried about the consequences of unemployment, or about the rising social costs (pensions, schooling, health care) that state companies used to bear, people are becoming afraid to spend just as they have in Japan.Several years of Japan-like slow growth, not to mention recession, would be disastrous for the welfare of ordinary Chinese.

By construction, OFDM is based upon a large number of closely spaced orthogonal subcarrier signals, used to bear data on several parallel data streams or channels.

The experimental results of adsorption process in a packed bed column are used to bear out the accuracy of Klinkenberg correlation model.

Things that used to bore him he now found charming.

Now, when he practices his lines, he surrounds himself by the history that used to bore him.

The coal auger may be compared to an auger used to bore a hole in a piece of wood.

I've always found the Lake District a bit twee anyway, and not just because Wordsworth's poetry used to bore me to tears at school.

Much larger augers are used to bore holes in soil for the emplacement of fence posts, telephone poles, and the like.