Example sentences of "has [adv] been used [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 2 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 3 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 4 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 5 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 7 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 8 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 9 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 10 | ‘ And Sabine has not been used as a de Rochefort name for several generations . |
| 11 | The Dundalk complex , situated on Gallow 's Hill , has not been used as a jail since 1931 . |
| 12 | As Stoker argues above , contracting out has largely been used as a threat to achieve other forms of change , often by senior bureaucrats to gain concessions from and changes in work practices by staff at lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 13 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 14 | The helpline has already been used by a number of worried officers . |
| 15 | Weisstein declares that ‘ biology has always been used as a curse against women ’ ( quoted in Halpern 1986 : 1015 ) . |
| 16 | Originally a tearoom and a sweet shop , it has also been used as a billiard hall and a printers ' shop . |
| 17 | The trees bearing Cox 's Orange Pippins are vigorous enough to be favourites for orchards in Britain and several other countries with a similar climate , and it has also been used as a parent in breeding a number of other varieties which share some of its desirable characteristics . |
| 18 | If a clone has also been used as a probe then the program also checks if the probe and clone are assigned to the same contig . |
| 19 | This tectono-stratigraphic model has also been used in a very tentative way to predict broad facies relationships . |
| 20 | Again this technique has also been used in a special probe . |
| 21 | Designers ' Saturday has traditionally been used as a launching pad for designs and this year is no exception . |
| 22 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 23 | The rest of this chapter will be concerned with developing one particular model , known as the income — expenditure model , which has frequently been used as a basis for explaining the operation of fiscal policy . |
| 24 | This sentence has frequently been used as a stick with which to beat Eliot , generally to prove that his attitudes towards fascism were ambiguous at best . |
| 25 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 26 | The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools . |