Example sentences of "been used [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 2 | What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ? |
| 3 | Several Y-specific genes have been used for sex typing . |
| 4 | Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport . |
| 5 | Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers . |
| 6 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 7 | Th the the other thing erm reference that this other manager has not at no occa on no occasion has that car been used for company use . |
| 8 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
| 9 | The fact of the child 's puzzlement is due to his being a victim of the way in which the dogmatic religions of the world have been used for child indoctrination , resulting in the perpetuation of the inherent superstitions and subsequent evils that have shamed religion throughout civilised time . |
| 10 | Banks rather than state grants have been used for investment capital as part of a strategy to protect that autonomy . |
| 11 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 12 | BELOW : The site was originally quite complex and has been used for cloth manufacture , flock and shoddy production . |
| 13 | And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do . |
| 14 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 15 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 16 | All these methods have been used in nurse education in recent years and reflect the student-centred approaches being adopted by many nurse educators . |
| 17 | A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters . |
| 18 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 19 | The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system . |
| 20 | Activated carbon has been used in groundwater remediation to aid the overall process . |
| 21 | I would imagine this dog has been used in dog fighting . |
| 22 | It is hoped that new international standards will also be set for code marks that identify which polymer has been used in plastic packaging manufacture , making recycling that much easier . |
| 23 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |
| 24 | Concrete hulls , reinforced with glass-fibre rather than steel , have been used in boat building for many years . |