Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 3 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 4 | Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ . |
| 5 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 6 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 7 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 8 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |
| 9 | The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer . |
| 10 | Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children . |
| 11 | Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children . |
| 12 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 13 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |
| 14 | It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution . |
| 15 | While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion . |
| 16 | This is when free will has again been used for egotistical desires , your need for power , riches , or a soft ride . |
| 17 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 18 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 19 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 20 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 21 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 22 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 23 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 24 | The condemned techniques had already been used in experimental interrogations in the month or two prior to the UUAC general strike and had demonstrated how effective they were in inducing confessions . |
| 25 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |
| 26 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 27 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 28 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 29 | It had not been used since 1978 , but became necessary because of the extent of the financial needs of the former Soviet republics , added to other world financial problems . |
| 30 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |