Example sentences of "been used [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong . |
| 2 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 4 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 5 | In this article the word ‘ word-processor ’ has been used many times . |
| 6 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 7 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |
| 8 | Yeah , put the cover back on just in case , cos you can cut yourself , it 's never been used much and it 's really like new sharp . |
| 9 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 10 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 11 | Finally , we have hardly mentioned many conventional accompanimental ideas which have been used thousands of times and have been invaluable in their time . |
| 12 | The sections of the booklet which seem most commonly to have been used concerned : the pastoral system ; school ‘ climate ’ and discipline ; pupil assessment and record keeping ; and the section on evaluating a lesson . |
| 13 | He looks promising and has been used this season as a replacment for Wallace . |
| 14 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |