Example sentences of "that have [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 2 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 3 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 4 | Mefenamic acid is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been used for other gynaecological problems . |
| 5 | Spreadsheet models are so useful that they have a tendency to outgrow the capabilities of the software that has been used to implement them . |
| 6 | Spreadsheet models are so useful that they have a tendency to outgrow the capabilities of the software that has been used to implement them |
| 7 | This acrylic surface is the type that has been used at the US Open ever since it moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows . |
| 8 | One classificatory device that has been used frequently draws distinctions between church , denomination , and sect and cult . |
| 9 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 10 | It is this discretion that has been used routinely to allow questioning which Parliament had intended should be exceptional . |
| 11 | Say that the wrong person has been murdered , a basic idea that has been used and used again but which , given other fresh aspects to your book , can very well be made to serve once more . |
| 12 | Translation of the concepts in a search profile will involve consultation of the thesaurus , classification scheme ( or its index ) or list of subject headings that has been used in constructing the index to be searched . |
| 13 | In Section 8–2 , we outline the one-sector equilibrium growth model that has been used in most treatments of the dynamic effects of taxation . |
| 14 | This tendency not to see beyond the individual and his or her legal specialism that has been used before , to the other service available in the firm , is an old-established one — ‘ although , ’ said , ‘ I had hoped we were starting to get past that ’ . |
| 15 | The method that has been used to store the bigram and trigram matrices relies on the fact that if no value for a trigram transition is available then the system backs off to the bigram value . |
| 16 | Competition , as many writers have told us , is a term that has been used in innumerable senses . |
| 17 | Feminists and other progressives have always been uncomfortable with the whole notion of morality , viewing it as an essentially conservative concept that has been used to bolster traditional modes of thinking and undermine efforts for change . |
| 18 | The Bivvy Dome is E.T . 's latest offering to the specimen lads , a shelter that has been used for a couple of seasons by leading anglers like Ritchie McDonald and Pete Springate and whilst it may not be everyone 's cup of tea , it certainly has its advantages . |
| 19 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ All the money that has been used against the Copts has been supplied by you . |
| 21 | This enables water that has been used in the final rinse for previous dishes to be boosted on the next batch to clear off detergents . |
| 22 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 23 | The bomb had a barometric trigger of the kind that had been used to bomb aircraft before . |
| 24 | She recognised the stitching that had been used on the elephant . |
| 25 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 26 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 27 | The tremendous amount of timber that had been used to construct the set had been donated , as had carpets and materials for curtains . |
| 28 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 29 | It was a male preserve , consecrated to sport , where guns were cleaned after a day 's shooting and guests would be shown valuable old museum pieces that had been used by earlier Arbuthnots . |
| 30 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |