Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 2 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 3 | The Adaptive Behavior Scale requires a rater to record the level and/or consistency of individual performance in living skills ; it has been widely used in American and British studies of deinstitutionalization . |
| 4 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 5 | A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute . |
| 6 | Aluminium powder has been extensively used in this way ( ‘ silver' paint is a convenient source of sufficiently fine particles ) , particularly in silicone oils and other highly viscous liquids . |
| 7 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been extensively used by inorganic chemists since about 1940 , particularly with the development of infra-red ( IR ) and Raman spectrometers that are reliable and easy to use . |
| 8 | The D trumpet has been increasingly used by modern composers , notably Britten . |
| 9 | Dextrose has been successfully used by trained ambulance staff , as has glucagon with or without a glucose drink . |
| 10 | This Weberian line has been much used in International Relations , especially in the subfield known as Foreign Policy Analysis . |
| 11 | The New York City Bar Association claimed in a report released yesterday that torture has been commonly used in Turkish police stations and that the Turkish legal system has failed to respond to it . |