Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] used by " in BNC.
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| 1 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 2 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 3 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 4 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 5 | The helpline has already been used by a number of worried officers . |
| 6 | Neither he nor manager John Lambie attended the sessions , but the players certainly appeared to have benefited from the wisdom that has already been used by Rangers and Liz McColgan , among others . |
| 7 | But it has apparently proven useful for microscopic surgery — and has also been used by US cult band the Grateful Dead , who recorded their recent revival concert in three dimensions . |
| 8 | It has also been used by Givón ( 1979a ) in his argument that , in the development of a language , sentential subjects are derived from ‘ grammaticalised topics ’ . |
| 9 | Payment Profile data has also been used by Infolink Decisions Services to improve the predictive power of credit scorecards , with impressive results — a good example of the benefits to customers of the cross marketing strategy between companies in the UAPT-Infolink Group . |
| 10 | Indeed , local government has often been used by the right of the Conservative Party to promote the introduction of ‘ market forces ’ into , and the privatization of , certain state services , and by the left of the Labour Party to develop ‘ local socialism ’ and the extension of public sector services into areas of the community previously untouched by local government . |
| 11 | Mr Seselj has often been used by President Milosevic to advance his own ends . |
| 12 | The symbolism of the sea has often been used by writers and speakers , but a similar ploy can be used relating to other professions , hobbies and subjects ranging from football to plane travel with original effect . |
| 13 | The items sold to the Buyer under this contract of sale are second-hand , having already been used by the Seller in the Seller 's business . |
| 14 | The Corporation of the City of London had long maintained a non-denominational burial ground , though it had predominantly been used by Dissenters . |
| 15 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 16 | If the latter were the case , we would expect no accommodation to take place for a specific variable until that variable had already been used by the interlocutor . |
| 17 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |
| 18 | At the Theatre Royal , Crawford had a dressing-room , complete with velvet curtains and luxurious couch , that had once been used by Ginger Rogers , when she was starring in a London stage version of the hit Broadway musical Mame . |
| 19 | Despite some initial uncertainty as to whether these accounts were correct , it became generally accepted ( e.g. by the US and British governments ) that chemical weapons had indeed been used by Iraq on the scale reported . |
| 20 | There was discussion on the need for articles encouraging people to set up new groups : Fillan produced some useful material on this , and Eileen referred to studies developed by her group which had subsequently been used by six others . |
| 21 | Both wills and inventories have long been used by historians of the late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries . |
| 22 | The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ? |
| 23 | These coordinates have also been used by Yurtsever ( 1988 c ) . |
| 24 | These methods have also been used by PROPE in the memoranda of evidence prepared for the enquiries of the House of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service . |
| 25 | So , commissioners have mainly been used by the United States in its relations with France and the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | School buses have sometimes been used by adults , although not frequently — again , sometimes owing to routes and timing . |
| 27 | Modal compositions have commonly been used by sandstone or carbonate petrographers but Zuffa ( 1986 ) has demonstrated the importance of consideration of siliciclastic plus detailed carbonate components . |
| 28 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 29 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |