Example sentences of "been use [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically , it does seem to work in practice , and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy .
2 IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter .
3 The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's .
4 Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees .
5 By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states .
6 Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour .
7 Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples .
8 The change in refractive index of the polymer with temperature has been used by several workers to establish T g .
9 Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation .
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