Example sentences of "[been] used [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 2 | Middle-out strategies , which have been used with more powerful grammars , have an advantage over strict left-to-right strategies in that they can use areas of better acoustic quality as islands of comparative certainty from which to tackle areas of poorer quality . |
| 3 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 4 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 5 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 6 | Numbers 420 and 427 have not been used for quite some time and will be sold by the MOD as surplus to requirements , perhaps to be purchased by some preserved railway ? |
| 7 | Despite such dreadful out-of-tuneness , however , it is still refreshing to hear mutations and high-pitched stops which have a gentle , smoothly-blended quality quite at variance with their shrill and screaming counterparts on some of the instruments which have been used in more recent recordings . |
| 8 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 9 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |