Example sentences of "[verb] [been] used [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wide variety of appraisal techniques has been used including points scoring methods . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 4 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 5 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation ( NIPPV ) has been used in patients with acute and chronic respiratory failure due to neuromuscular disease , chest wall deformities , COAD , cystic fibrosis , and obstructive sleep apnoea . |
| 8 | It is also worth working out a scale of charges which can be used if an author or editor asks to buy equipment which has been used in tests for a book or for a comparative feature . |
| 9 | The plant oil closely resembles sperm-whale oil , which has been used in cosmetics for many years . |
| 10 | Various ways in which the term has been used by philosophers … |
| 11 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 12 | The most common example of time out has been used by generations of parents . |
| 13 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 14 | An additional difficulty with the central-peripheral distinction as it has been used by researchers is the rather ad hoc definition of the difference . |
| 15 | The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park . |
| 16 | Many teachers have felt considerable frustration when uncertainty , for example at national level , has been used by heads as an excuse to avoid school planning beyond the immediate future . |
| 17 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 18 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 19 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 20 | This particular measure is the square of the correlation coefficient which has been used throughout Chapters 4 and 5 . |
| 21 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 22 | There are also Roman siegeworks which may have been used for exercises by troops from nearby temporary camps still visible around Pennymuir . |
| 23 | Without his influence , the vast energy expended on Wissenschaft over the centuries might have been used for purposes of individual or national aggrandizement . |
| 24 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 25 | Such general schemes could have been used by craftsmen of little mathematical or geometrical ability . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Everything in the sale will have been used in films , television programmes and stage plays . |
| 28 | Twelve kilometres to the north is the embayed island of Dia , which had its own port ; with a southerly aspect , it may have been used in emergencies when persistent north winds would have prevented ships intending to dock at Amnisos , Katsamba , or Agii Theodhori from leaving port . |
| 29 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 30 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |