Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] be used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 2 | There is really little point in scolding the puppy at this stage , especially if it has not been used to the big outdoors before . |
| 3 | Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ . |
| 4 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 5 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 6 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 7 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 8 | ‘ And Sabine has not been used as a de Rochefort name for several generations . |
| 9 | The Dundalk complex , situated on Gallow 's Hill , has not been used as a jail since 1931 . |
| 10 | It has not been used outside of CASE before . |
| 11 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 12 | Although this form of contempt is an easy target for criticism , it has not been used in England for many years . |
| 13 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |
| 14 | 18 women have been put in administrative detention for 6 months without trial a measure that has not been used against women since 1979 . |
| 15 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 16 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 17 | I know a way out of Parfois that has n't been used for years , but it 's still open if you know where to find it . |
| 18 | The place has n't been used since then . ’ |
| 19 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |
| 20 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 21 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 22 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 23 | Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1 , when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint . |
| 24 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 25 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 26 | In June 1925 , the Ministry of Transport ( which had replaced the Transport Department of the Board of Trade in 1919 ) took note of the poor condition of the track and road surface on the Cricket Green spur at Mitcham , which had not been used since the war . |
| 27 | It had not been used since 1978 , but became necessary because of the extent of the financial needs of the former Soviet republics , added to other world financial problems . |
| 28 | She took no part in the exclaiming and protesting and analysing nor would she indulge in speculation as to what had really happened or as to why the letter of authority had not been used against Ellen . |
| 29 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 30 | A financial document that had NOT been used in the compilation of the corpus was selected as test data ( this was the same document as used in the earlier investigations of Chapter Three ) . |