Example sentences of "the [noun sg] has [be] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The technique has been used to examine natural trace-metal variations in surface waters and shallow groundwaters in Northern Ireland : for example , high concentrations of aluminium and beryllium are found in waters associated with the Mourne granites . |
| 4 | In addition to identification , the technique has been used to elucidate certain aspects of polymer microstructure , such as branching , crystallinity , tacticity , and cis-trans isomerism . |
| 5 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 6 | It gives a better guide to where the money has been used . |
| 7 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |
| 8 | The money has been used to provide an adapted electric trike for 12-year-old Claire Coultard , who lives in Reg 's home town of Scunthorpe . |
| 9 | This provided ‘ a check from the buyers mortgagees point of view , that the money has been used for the purchase ’ . |
| 10 | The money has been used to upgrade the Middlesbrough plant 's chemical reactor , allowing it to double its output of speciality chemicals . |
| 11 | The money has been used to establish the Head Start Capital Fund , which will provide loans of up to £30,000 for individual projects at competitive rates . |
| 12 | The yacht has been used as a model upon which all the Northshore Yacht Yards ' Vancouver 28s are based , but they do differ slightly from the original yacht . |
| 13 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 14 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |
| 15 | The term has been used in diverse ways . |
| 16 | Greg son ( 1987 : 5 ) identifies eight separate ways in which the term has been used but considers that these fall into three broad categories , the first concerned with ‘ the scale at which certain social and economic processes operate and the way in which the local , in the form of particular places , might relate to this ’ . |
| 17 | There is a problem here in that much of the certainty and confidence with which the term has been used have collapsed along with the secure life-time employment which characterized industrial capitalism . |
| 18 | Various ways in which the term has been used by philosophers … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A particular place in the fence has been used as a route to cross the railway . |
| 21 | In this example , the programme has been used to predict the behaviour of dissolved silica with time and space during the flow of calcium hydroxide through a sandstone in a laboratory experiment . |
| 22 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 23 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 24 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 25 | Answer guide : The answer should point out that a cost can be incurred which will result in both an asset , i.e. something that has a future benefit , or an expense , i.e. something where the benefit has been used up . |
| 26 | This is the first time the tactic has been used , effectively creating a barrier between the residents at risk and the revellers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 29 | The 80486 applications will run 27% faster when the compiler has been used . |
| 30 | 486 applications will run 27% faster when the compiler has been used . |