Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has been used to find the amounts of elements such as iron , sodium , potassium , aluminium , calcium , magnesium , lithium and phosphorus in the flint , and it was the concentrations of these elements which were different for different mines . |
| 2 | The technique has been used to examine natural trace-metal variations in surface waters and shallow groundwaters in Northern Ireland : for example , high concentrations of aluminium and beryllium are found in waters associated with the Mourne granites . |
| 3 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 4 | The ratio technique has been used to assess the vigour of growing vegetation not only using Landsat data for small area inventories but also on a global basis using low-resolution data from the NOAA meteorological satellites . |
| 5 | In addition to identification , the technique has been used to elucidate certain aspects of polymer microstructure , such as branching , crystallinity , tacticity , and cis-trans isomerism . |
| 6 | Since 1988 the Doppler technique has been used in diagnosing vascular malformations . |
| 7 | This paper describes a technique that allows metabolism of nutrients to be assessed in whole epithelial biopsy specimens , and this technique has been used to assess the metabolism of butyrate and glutamine by ileal and colonic biopsy specimens from patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis and controls . |
| 8 | This technique has been used increasingly often in the recent past as a way of signalling the Bank 's wishes on the appropriate level of interest rates . |
| 9 | This technique has been used successfully in life insurance and industrial selling but has application in many other areas also . |
| 10 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 11 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 12 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 13 | Since the mid-seventies the expression euro-communism has been used to describe the Communist Parties of Italy , France and Spain . |
| 14 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 15 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 16 | Lustre powder has been used to great effect here , giving a lovely ephemeral glimmer to the castle . |
| 17 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 18 | The neck is made from birdseye maple , which is satin finished along its playing length , but as the reverse side of the headstock has been signed and numbered by Larry himself , a layer of clear lacquer has been used to protect the area . |
| 19 | One of the oldest fodder herbs know , fenugreek has been used to feed cattle round the countries bordering the Mediterranean for thousands of years . |
| 20 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 21 | The ’ bogus ’ tag has been used indiscriminately and has created a climate of hostility to new arrivals . |
| 22 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 23 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 24 | The yacht has been used as a model upon which all the Northshore Yacht Yards ' Vancouver 28s are based , but they do differ slightly from the original yacht . |
| 25 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 26 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 27 | Further money has been used to buy hand mirrors for each delivery room . |
| 28 | It gives a better guide to where the money has been used . |
| 29 | While money has been used to reward them the intrinsic motivation of working in a harmonious team has been eliminated in many jobs ; for example , checkout operators in a supermarket , process workers in a manufacturing plant . |
| 30 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |