Example sentences of "been [adv] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 2 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 3 | Human rights organisations remain wary of publishing figures because they have been widely used as propaganda . |
| 4 | The presence of Thalassiothrix in Neogene sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific has been widely used as an indicator of significant upwelling and high primary production . |
| 5 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 6 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 7 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 8 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 9 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 12 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 15 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 16 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 17 | However , the Rubislaw Quarry , stone from which has been widely used throughout the area , is located in the Aberdeen granite , which is less geochemically evolved and has a lower uranium content than the other granites . |
| 18 | This type of system which originated in the United Kingdom has been widely used throughout Europe and is gaining in popularity in the United States of America and Japan . |
| 19 | The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in research laboratories , its clinical utility in chronic hepatitis C is not established . |
| 22 | The Adaptive Behavior Scale requires a rater to record the level and/or consistency of individual performance in living skills ; it has been widely used in American and British studies of deinstitutionalization . |
| 23 | The median voter model has been widely used in both theoretical and empirical ( see Section 10–5 ) work ; it does , however , rest on the assumption that a majority voting equilibrium exists . |
| 24 | COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK . |
| 25 | ATNs have been widely used in natural language processing systems over the last two decades ( e.g. LUNAR ( Woods , 1973 ) , PROGRAMMAR ( Winograd , 1972 ) , SOPHIE ( Burton & Brown , 1979 ) ) . |
| 26 | The per cent time that gastric pH is >4 has been widely used in estimating abnormal increases in gastric pH . |
| 27 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 28 | However , they have been widely used by Tough and by many of the teachers she has worked with and thus , from a practical point of view , they seem to have been well tried and tested by practitioners . |
| 29 | Predatory pricing has been widely used by both incumbents and entrants to the eurobond markets . |
| 30 | Collocations ( and the concordances from which they are derived ) have been successfully used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |