Example sentences of "[been] used in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctrine has also been used in cases where swabs have been left in patients after operations ( Mahon v Osborne [ 1939 ] 2 KB 14 ) . |
| 2 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 3 | Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically . |
| 4 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 5 | These have never been used in studies with humans . |
| 6 | Relations with Australia were also damaged in June by an admission from the PNG military that helicopters provided by the Australian government for transport and surveillance purposes had been used in February 1990 to dump the bodies of executed BRA rebels into the sea . |
| 7 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 8 | Suitable accounting policies applied consistently and making use of reasonable and prudent estimates have been used in preparation of the accounts . |
| 9 | Manometry , electromyography , and scintiscanning have been used in adults in the investigation of colon motility but only recently have these been extended to the study of paediatric patients . |
| 10 | Passing sentence , Lord Justice MacDermott described the case as unusual , saying there was no record of any of the weapons having been used in terrorism , and they were not ready to use immediately . |
| 11 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |
| 12 | Although this form of contempt is an easy target for criticism , it has not been used in England for many years . |
| 13 | One of two originally purchased by the late Frank Sanders , many parts from this ‘ Fury have been used in other rebuilds over the years . |
| 14 | This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water . |
| 15 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 16 | The above approach towards any type of character role is a very typically English trait and has been used in music halls , pantomimes and comedies fur many years . |
| 17 | Some of his expert systems have been used in plant/factory environments for several years ( i.e. COATEX for the process industry , ESEMA for manufacturing industry , etc. ) bringing benefits amounting to millions of pounds to AES Ltd customers . |
| 18 | Is nine thirty er that time ever been used in Methodists . |
| 19 | Subsequently this scale has been used in Melton Mowbray by Jagger et al . |
| 20 | Sailing wheelbarrows have been used in China for two thousand years . |
| 21 | ( It is possible that the Chinese qinghaosu , a natural drug derived from the medicinal herb quinghao , Artemisia annua , which has been used in China for at least 2000 years , may prove useful . ) |
| 22 | Pollution taxes , especially for water pollution , have been used in France , Italy , Germany , and the Netherlands . |
| 23 | A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview . |
| 24 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 25 | This may have been used in conjunction with a net , or on its own from an open boat . |
| 26 | Furthermore such systems have not yet been designed to flood such a warehouse at the speed with which the fire will develop vertically and so far have only been used in conjunction with a sprinkler system at ceiling level . |
| 27 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 28 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 29 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 30 | The same arguments , and others which we will come across in the case studies , have been used in favour of control of broadcasting . |