Example sentences of "has [been] [adv] used for " in BNC.

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1 The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff .
2 * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America .
3 No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons .
4 Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water .
5 So we do feel that er , while children feel they do n't er have the freedom , we feel that er , er , er a very nice system , which has been socially used for , is being sacrificed because we are living in a different set-up .
6 To a computer programmer , the pattern of distribution of these ‘ genetic fossil ’ fragments is uncannily reminiscent of the pattern of text on the surface of an old disc that has been much used for editing text .
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