Example sentences of "been [adv] use [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water .
2 COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK .
3 Both have the same medicinal properties , but salad burnet has been much used in salads , from the days of the Elizabethans .
4 Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control .
5 Alternatively it could have developed as another example of a prey-killing poison that has been secondarily used against attackers .
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