Example sentences of "[been] [adv] used [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 2 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 3 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 4 | A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute . |
| 5 | Aluminium powder has been extensively used in this way ( ‘ silver' paint is a convenient source of sufficiently fine particles ) , particularly in silicone oils and other highly viscous liquids . |
| 6 | Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods . |