Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be used [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , SI units should have been used rather than cgs . |
| 2 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 3 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 4 | It will take an enormous effort to make the world just a little safer , and the resources might have been used elsewhere to greater effect . |
| 5 | If the IMF had been a major borrower and issuer of SDR-denominated assets then the SDR might have been used more extensively . |
| 6 | In fact , eighty per cent of what we throw away could have been used again : that means that , out of every five dustbins of " rubbish " , four contain valuable recyclable materials . |
| 7 | It will be understood that when this term is used , the terms national product and national expenditure could have been used equally well . |
| 8 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 9 | These expenditures may also have generated inflation and wasted talent which could have been used more effectively in resolving more pressing social and industrial problems . |
| 10 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 11 | So the stick may have been used both audibly to establish speed , and visibly during the course of a piece . |
| 12 | The farmsteads and hamlets thus created may have been used initially as temporary steadings , but eventually a number were permanently occupied . |
| 13 | They were often made from bone and antler , although wood may have been used more often than is now apparent because it rarely survives . |
| 14 | Yes , it would have been used physically as one million pounds , yes it would . |
| 15 | The lance would have been used both to stab and as a weapon from throwing or as a lance on horseback . |