Example sentences of "[been] [adv] use [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road .
2 Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ .
3 The presence of Thalassiothrix in Neogene sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific has been widely used as an indicator of significant upwelling and high primary production .
4 A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established .
5 Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years .
6 Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years .
7 This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland .
8 Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity .
9 However , the Rubislaw Quarry , stone from which has been widely used throughout the area , is located in the Aberdeen granite , which is less geochemically evolved and has a lower uranium content than the other granites .
10 Collocations ( and the concordances from which they are derived ) have been successfully used for a variety of linguistic purposes .
11 This approach has been successfully used with a number of well known models of the UK economy , including the models of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , the London Business School and HM Treasury .
12 The fibre composite model has been successfully used by the author and his associates to explain the properties of ultra-drawn polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene .
13 The answers and commentary given below are intended to provide Tutors with an insight into the way in which these questions and the approach underlying the design of the review questions and problems for discussion have been successfully used by the authors and others with a number of different groups of students .
14 been long used by the Seneka Indians to cure the bite of the rattle-snake which , if taken in time , is an infallible remedy .
15 Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 .
16 No doubt it has been so used by the unknown one who has been arranging the thefts .
17 None of these notes have been directly used in the essay plan ( p.92 ) .
18 The fossil remains of beetles , including the hard elytra , have been extensively used in the interpretation of the climatic history of the Pleistocene ice advances and retreats , because the species of beetle present in peat deposits change in harmony with the climatic fluctuations .
19 Already this system has been extensively used in the USA where , increasingly , the Medicare system is reimbursing hospitals on the basis of a price per DRG .
20 ‘ All our things are country things that have been well used over the years , and we use them all the time , and live with them , and enjoy them . ’
21 The example of the less traditional manufacturing regions of Italy has been well used in the literature .
22 Exhibition area in foyer of the Centre , which has been well used in the past by CEDC , and which has the advantage of being open on Saturdays .
23 Yet , it has been consistently used as a straw model which could easily be knocked down to deny the existence of centralized power centres in Japan .
24 As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent .
25 ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence .
26 Space and existing features of the old houses have been cleverly used in the transformation work , achieving a result which is remarkably uncluttered and harmonious .
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