Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] used by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 2 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 3 | In the following year the President argued that man 's nature had been used by God and that state-imposed collective responsibility was unnecessary : Christian altruism had worked through an ‘ inevitable though almost undetected stimulation of Egoism ’ . |
| 4 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |
| 5 | The car had been used by Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McAuley . |
| 6 | The Queen noted in her journal that it would all have been much better had she had chloroform , which had been used by Victoria 's physicians in similar circumstances . |
| 7 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
| 8 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 9 | It is observed elsewhere how his unfortunate mother had been used by Henry I in his immensely grandiose designs . |
| 10 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 11 | In one case five fire extinguishers in the same room were found to be empty — some of which had been used by workmen to get rid of dust . |
| 12 | It was a male preserve , consecrated to sport , where guns were cleaned after a day 's shooting and guests would be shown valuable old museum pieces that had been used by earlier Arbuthnots . |
| 13 | At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns . |
| 14 | The reference guide The Executive Grapevine had been used by the government service organisation and one of the anonymous respondents ; the latter had also responded to mail-shots from headhunters seeking business . |
| 15 | The Biblical Commission , originally established to foster biblical scholarship , had been used by Pius X to repress it . |
| 16 | Until 1321 , parliament had been used by the king 's opponents as an occasion when pressure might be brought to bear upon him ; to the king , parliament was an inescapable necessity when taxes had to be raised but otherwise was of little significance . |
| 17 | Garotting gangs were said to work in threes — a ‘ front stall ’ and a ‘ back-stall ’ who acted is look-outs — and a ‘ nasty ’ man' who moved in from the rear : hug on' had been used by guards in the convict hulks in order to subdue troublesome prisoners , and that this was where the original garotting gangs had learned the art . |
| 18 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 19 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 20 | A General Alexander — a Yorkshire acquaintance of Aitken and an authority on Nigerian affairs who had from time to time provided Aitken , in his journalistic capacity , with snippets of information about the war — had been used by the British government , because of his knowledge of Nigeria and the military position , as an unofficial adviser in these matters . |
| 21 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | The old Michigan law which preceded the 1974 reform placed an extremely heavy burden of proof upon the prosecution , which had to prove beyond reasonable doubt both that force had been used by the defendant and that the victim was unwilling . |
| 23 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 24 | This was land that had been used by the army for infantry training but which , for various reasons , the Ministry had decided to give up . |
| 25 | A couple of dozen bales of fabric had been destroyed , partly by the fire and partly by the water that had been used by the fire brigade to put the fire out . |
| 26 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 27 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |
| 28 | ( e.g. the term ‘ natural selection ’ had been used by others before Darwin supplied the concept which the term now implies ) . |
| 29 | They are simply told to imagine that the adjectives had been used by 6 different people to describe another person , and to use these traits to form an impression of that imaginary person . |
| 30 | How his powers had been used by slave traders , who had murdered the rest of his family , and then by the T'Ka drug cartel . |