Example sentences of "[been] used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T : That Grease album has got some break beats on it that have been used on loads and loads of stuff . |
| 2 | a vehicle which has been used on roads outside Great Britain , while it is being driven after its importation into Great Britain on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Great Britain to a place of residence of the owner or the journey from any such place where , by previous arrangement , the vehicle will be provided with such anchorage points and seat belts as will comply with requirements of this regulation ; or |
| 3 | Such radio-carbon dating has been used on wood , charcoal , peat , organic mud and calcium carbonate in molluscs , foraminifera and bones . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 6 | Then came that great morning when the newly made electron microscope had been used on polio slides . |
| 7 | ( Euroniche ( 1989 ) alleges that it has recently been used on pigs in Utrecht . ) |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That means it 's been used with copper . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | Another form of repo which has been used at times of particularly heavy tax receipts by the government is one undertaken directly with the banks . |
| 15 | A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire , but be infertile . |
| 16 | The mint mark STR might have been used at Treveri ( Trier in Germany ) , but it is rather suspect . |
| 17 | A downhole flowmeter for measuring the flow rates and water cut was run in the well , the first time it has been used in the North Sea , although a prototype has been used at Wytch Farm . |
| 18 | Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast . |
| 19 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 20 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The cubeoctahedron , dodecahedron , icosahedron and various other semi and demi-regular solids have been used as models for geodesic domes . |
| 25 | It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use . |
| 26 | Traditionally , the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters . |
| 27 | Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse . |
| 28 | He illustrated this by describing how alkaloids had been used as poisons since Roman times ( murder ) , through the discovery of the pain killing effects of morphine ( medicine ) and finally the hallucinogenic activity of LSD ( magic ) . |
| 29 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |
| 30 | 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 . |