Example sentences of "[vb base] been used [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees on the slopes have been used for firewood to provide space to make new fields . |
| 2 | Budgets for prostheses have been used for years to limit elective orthopaedic activity because blocking the purchase of further implants stops joint replacement surgery , the ‘ bread and butter ’ of current elective orthopaedic practice . |
| 3 | Condoms have been used for years to prevent unwanted pregnancy but are also an effective barrier against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV . |
| 4 | Secondly , issue markets have been used by government to effect the privatisation of public sector businesses : notably British Telecommunications Plc . |
| 5 | To avoid the waste of pupil time which arises from duplication of teaching in differing phases of schooling when the gap itself creates discontinuity , a variety of organizations have been used by LEAs to make sure that primary and secondary schools make clear to each other , first , what is being provided and later , as achievements and the needs of learning change , to help them to plan together to create a complementary or continuous curriculum between the phases . |
| 6 | That is , patients who have suffered brain damage to one of their hemispheres have been used in order to examine the effect of this damage on their linguistic and spatial abilities . |
| 7 | That is , patients who half suffered brain damage to one of their hemispheres have been used in order to examine the effect of this damage on their linguistic and spatial abilities . |
| 8 | One of two originally purchased by the late Frank Sanders , many parts from this ‘ Fury have been used in other rebuilds over the years . |
| 9 | Both the video and the pieces of the 1:8 model have been used in London to create the sets , in which Hockney has used bright colours and strong abstract shapes to striking effect . |
| 10 | The state apparatus is subject to scrutiny and investigation by joint party-state control committees responsible for rooting out inefficiency , red tape , departmentalism , localism , embezzlement and corruption ; and for checking that governrnent funds have been used in ways intended by government policy . |