Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 2 | The main reason that Marslen-Wilson and Tyler give for rejecting the idea that context can operate before any sensory information is received is one which has been used by many other theorists , including Fodor ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 4 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 5 | If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book , the case is even stronger . |
| 6 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 7 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 8 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 9 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 10 | It has been used on many ceremonial occasions over the past 25 years and serves as a constant reminder of the common history and friendship shared . |
| 11 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 12 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 13 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 14 | The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 . |
| 15 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 16 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |