Example sentences of "[adv] been used by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 2 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 4 | If the latter were the case , we would expect no accommodation to take place for a specific variable until that variable had already been used by the interlocutor . |
| 5 | The items sold to the Buyer under this contract of sale are second-hand , having already been used by the Seller in the Seller 's business . |
| 6 | You have probably used sentences today which have never before been used by the human race . |
| 7 | So , commissioners have mainly been used by the United States in its relations with France and the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Indeed , local government has often been used by the right of the Conservative Party to promote the introduction of ‘ market forces ’ into , and the privatization of , certain state services , and by the left of the Labour Party to develop ‘ local socialism ’ and the extension of public sector services into areas of the community previously untouched by local government . |
| 9 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |