Example sentences of "[vb base] been used [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since the spread of offset-litho printing and the photocopier , documents have been used extensively in facsimile to give some of the flavour and feel of the original document .
2 Such agents have been used effectively in patients undergoing dental , orthopaedic , hepatic , vascular , and neurosurgery procedures , but most of the data on the use of such drugs have accrued from cardiac surgery .
3 ‘ We will assist in the removal of old facilities that have been used previously in operations using radioactive or other hazardous materials , ’ he added .
4 Your study will be effective only if you are prepared to apply intelligently to your work certain well-known techniques , most of which have been used successfully from time immemorial .
5 Simple gravel and other aggregates have been used successfully in filters .
6 Complex derivatives of phenols , chlorinated and compounded with an anionic base , have been used widely as glassware agents in the licensed trades until the advent of bisguanides .
7 Traditionally , white papers have been used exclusively with watercolours because they contribute to the brilliance of the colours .
8 A further convent was subsequently founded in Wynberg , Cape Town in 1952 , although both convents have been used exclusively by whites .
9 There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage .
10 These have been used retrospectively by Pissarides ( 1982 ) who showed that the percentage of the 18-year-old cohort gaining two or more A-levels had responded to changes in real permanent income and the ratio of expected earnings of manual workers to university graduates .
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