Example sentences of "had [been] use in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been used in India to control over-excitement and mania . |
| 2 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 3 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Shipping Gazette ’ stated that 300 tons of mahogany sawdust had been used in Britain to adulterate coffee . |
| 5 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 6 | Relations with Australia were also damaged in June by an admission from the PNG military that helicopters provided by the Australian government for transport and surveillance purposes had been used in February 1990 to dump the bodies of executed BRA rebels into the sea . |
| 7 | To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics . |
| 8 | A Ruger revolver found in a hedgerow near the car had been used in Mr McTasney 's murder , the court heard . |