Example sentences of "have been used [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milk and honey are just two kitchen cupboard stand-bys that have been used since ancient times in beauty routines , so give these recipes a go . |
| 2 | Because the Codds have been used to tiller-steered boats , they were very keen that Sparkle be similarly equipped . |
| 3 | These tests have been used for individual student assessment and as instruments for the product evaluation of instructional programmes . |
| 4 | Cheaper , mass-produced furniture may have dowel joints instead of tenons , and you may find that screws have been used for makeshift repairs in the past . |
| 5 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 6 | Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort . |
| 7 | Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons . |
| 8 | Micropalaeontological studies on recovered core samples have been used for stratigraphical studies on behalf of petroleum exploration companies . |
| 9 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 10 | They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys . |
| 11 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 12 | For example , the laws of optics , derived by induction from the results of laboratory experiments , have been used on numerous occasions in the design of optical instruments and these instruments have functioned satisfactorily . |
| 13 | But , if units of metal have been used as monetary values and in monetary transactions , what is the difference between a coin and a lump of metal ? |
| 14 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 15 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 16 | The very exhaustive treatise Contemporary Percussion by Reginald Smith Brindle ( O.U.P. ) goes in great detail into the technique of writing for and playing a vast number of percussion instruments and contains quotations from many modern works , as well as a 45 rpm recording of the sounds of many of the tuned and untuned instruments which have been used by modern composers . |
| 17 | The majority of the following questionnaires have been used by other authors for research purposes , so that they are accompanied by some normative data . |
| 18 | Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples . |
| 19 | We shall start with a description of the banking system , and then proceed to consider the types of monetary policies that have been used in recent years , and their effects . |
| 20 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 21 | Battery pods containing groups of AA cells have been used in vast numbers by nearly all detector manufacturers for many years . |
| 22 | Prayer rugs ( pls. 5 , 30–31 ) have been used in Muslim countries for centuries , and are an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 23 | These to date have been used in small quantities as chemical feedstock . |
| 24 | In addition , modules such as ‘ Work experience ’ and ‘ Enterprise activity ’ ( each also certificated at three levels and concerning process skills ) have been used in European projects . |
| 25 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 26 | Such chalets have been used in other parts of the country and are also common on the continent . |
| 27 | The twenties biplanes and monoplanes have been used in major films like Aces High , The Great Waldo Pepper , and Indiana Jones . |
| 28 | Although finite state grammars are weak they have been used in computational systems . |
| 29 | Cash limits now cover directly some 60% of public expenditure and have been used in different ways throughout the public sector . |
| 30 | Family network meetings to help maintain the web of relationships sustaining a vulnerable elderly client have been used in Social Service practice ( Rawlings , 1988 ) . |