Example sentences of "[been] use [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such radio-carbon dating has been used on wood , charcoal , peat , organic mud and calcium carbonate in molluscs , foraminifera and bones . |
| 2 | Having said that , this aggressive , attacking style has been used on country records for 30-odd years — listen to sessions by Glen Campbell , James Burton , Chet , Fred Carter Jr. , Wayne Moss and the like , from back in the early '60s . |
| 3 | Then came that great morning when the newly made electron microscope had been used on polio slides . |
| 4 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 5 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 6 | Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit . |
| 7 | That means it 's been used with copper . |
| 8 | This conceptualization , no different intrinsically from that of " filling " , has been used with discretion in the systemic analysis of M. O'Connor. , His primary example is Num 23.7 : |
| 9 | A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire , but be infertile . |
| 10 | I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy . |
| 11 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 12 | At local level the survey 's findings have been used as part of the Lingdale Revitalisation Project , to argue the case for converting the old village primary school into homes . |
| 13 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |
| 14 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 15 | In the course of history , many different commodities have been used as money — for example shells , animals and metals . |
| 16 | As Raymond de Becker points out , they could have been used as gospel by the naive , or turned into parlour games by sceptics . |
| 17 | Where a journalist intends to refer to an unnamed individual , it is reasonable that the individual should have an action for libel if others have correctly identified him or her as the target , whatever literary devices have been used as camouflage . |
| 18 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 19 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 20 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 21 | Conodonts have traditionally been used as form taxa , useful for stratigraphic correlation within Palaeozoic rocks . |
| 22 | Over 400 caves exist which have been used as food and wine/beer stores , tanning and malting rooms , dwellings and shelters in time of war . |
| 23 | Indeed , Crone said in his report that ‘ … the examination of these fake specimens shed no light at all on the main question as to whether mycotoxins have been used as warfare agents in Laos or Kampuchea ’ . |
| 24 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 25 | Inter-strain differences in the amount of C-banded material occurs between certain autosomes ( 11 ) and have been used as cell markers in chimaeras ( 12 ) . |
| 26 | The definition of which places have previously been used for exchange activities will again lead to the identification of higher status sites . |
| 27 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 28 | It is too small to have been used for storage or drying , but would have been suitable for the mistress of the house to sit at her small wheel to spin . |
| 29 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 30 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |