Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] used [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 2 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 4 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 5 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 6 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 7 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 8 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 9 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 10 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 11 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 12 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 13 | At the same time , it has allowed urban-based employees to commute from not only exurban areas ( Lawton , 1968 ) but also remote rural areas ( Lewis , 1967 ) in ever increasing numbers and these commuting fields have been used as another , albeit disputed way of defining rural areas ( Ball , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | The following conversion rates have been used throughout this book : 1oz = 25g 1 fl oz = 25ml 1/2pt = 250ml |
| 15 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 16 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 17 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 18 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |
| 19 | JSL employs just 7 people but it 's pistols have been used in many top shooting competitions . |
| 20 | At least the powers are there in the statute and have been used in some cases . |
| 21 | Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees . |
| 22 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH table forks have been used in this country since the middle of the 15th Century , they were not used in conjunction with knives until almost two centuries later . |