Example sentences of "it had be used [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been used more often , politicians and broadcasters alike would have regarded that as evidence not of the system 's success but of its failure . |
| 2 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 3 | No such punishment had been confirmed by any Home Secretary since June 1962 , and it had been used only sparingly before that . |
| 4 | But despite the obvious appeal of this rather pragmatic use of the social class concept , difficulties emerged in societies with social structures different from those in which it had been used apparently successfully . |
| 5 | Some , Allen guessed , had been several weeks unused ; others , not since the winter rains ; of one of them he said with more certainty that it had been used recently , perhaps yesterday . |