Example sentences of "have [been] used [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lopatin time-temperature index ( TTI ) has been used to predict sediment maturity ( see Warples 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories . |
| 3 | One of the oldest fodder herbs know , fenugreek has been used to feed cattle round the countries bordering the Mediterranean for thousands of years . |
| 4 | Television has been used to promote equality between the sexes by showing short features suggesting that sons and daughters should be brought up equally at home and girls not expected to wait on their brothers . |
| 5 | This has been used to support proposals to move from income to expenditure taxation . |
| 6 | However , the social security system has played a central role in these processes as an element of government economic management , particularly where it has been used to support employment policies aimed at the exclusion of increasing numbers of older people from the labour market . |
| 7 | A series of microcosm 'black boxes ' has been used to monitor changes in microbial floras as well as gross effects such as changes in leachate and gases . |
| 8 | Thus , over the years it has been used to index reports , trade literature , periodical articles and other similar documents . |
| 9 | At Clophill , Bedfordshire , detailed electromagnetic profiling has been used to map depth to the Fuller 's Earth and its thickness and persistence . |
| 10 | Radon has been used to detect uranium mineralisation and also to locate faults which may control mineral deposition . |
| 11 | In situ hybridisation has been used to detect mRNAs to the mactophage secretory products , lysozyme , interleukin 1β and tumour necrosis factor-α . |
| 12 | By far the most important of these is Bacillus thuringiensis ) ( Bt ) , but B. sphaericus is highly pathogenic to mosquitoes and B. popillae has been used to control scarab beetles , which are serious pasture pests . |
| 13 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 14 | It has been used to halt logging activity in the country 's few remaining old-growth forests , on the grounds that they constitute an essential habitat for species listed in the Act , notably the northern spotted owl [ see EDs 52 ; 57 ; 59/60 ] . |
| 15 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 16 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 17 | A method has been developed that allows the measurement of metabolism in ileocolonoscopic biopsy specimens , and this has been used to assess butyrate and glutamine metabolism in quiescent UC and controls . |
| 18 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 19 | Cysteamine has been used to induce ulcer and , although an alternative to other models , the cysteamine ulcer could not accurately represent human chronic duodenal ulcer . |
| 20 | Scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ) has been used to examine surface morphology ( Figure 2 , panel 7 , and ref. 41 ) as well as the topographical distribution of membrane determinants detected immunocytochemically ( 42 ) . |
| 21 | But the opportunity has been used to create positions in ‘ new areas of interest , information technology and craft design and technology ’ , rather than to replace lost arts posts . |
| 22 | In a similar experiment , a greater variety of clast sizes has been used to test bone abrasion . |
| 23 | The water has been used to wash lorries down . |
| 24 | The product from International Paint 's Retail Division in the UK has been used to coat display boards and other structures used in the Daearth Project in Wales . |
| 25 | Funding from OBAT ( Outer Belfast Action Team ) has been used to provide equipment for the centre as a community facility . |
| 26 | GC analysis distinguishes between solesterol ( plants ) and cholesterol ( animals ) to indicate whether a vessel has been used to prepare vegetables or meat . |
| 27 | Legislation has been used to thwart library censorship ( as in the News International dispute ) , and legislation has been implemented which as a consequence may encourage and even legitimize library censorship ( as with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 ) . |
| 28 | You know I mean this has , this has been used accused Saddam Hussein has er is a , is a supporter of er the coup , but er , the real implication I am talking about is the problem . |
| 29 | Similarly , when the government discovers that a large part of the loans raised from abroad has been used to make dinar loans to Yugoslav enterprises , and that the dinar service payments on the latter loans increasingly fall short of the amounts required to meet the interest and principal on these foreign debts , it instructs the National Bank to cover the difference by issuing new money . |
| 30 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |