Example sentences of "[been] use [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In this study the overall need for reinsertion may have been higher , particularly in the no surgery group , than if bilateral tubes had been used instead of one tube .
2 The Bodmin Parkway connection had been used regularly by main line diesels visiting the B&WR for special gala events , including locos from the West Somerset Railway owned by the D&EG .
3 Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results .
4 A prototype has been used successfully on human gall stones introduced into swine gall bladders .
5 It will take an enormous effort to make the world just a little safer , and the resources might have been used elsewhere to greater effect .
6 Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields .
7 Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal .
8 The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness .
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