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

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1 The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) .
2 Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK .
7 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 ) ) .
8 The per cent time that gastric pH is >4 has been widely used in estimating abnormal increases in gastric pH .
9 Often , these have been successfully used in other research and this allows us to compare our own work with that of others .
10 Whilst these decision aids have been successfully used in certain instances , they are not in regular use in the majority of organisations .
11 Based on the fact that eicosapentaenoate derived eicosanoids have attenuated proinflammatory activity as compared with arachidonate derived compounds , dietary n3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements ( fish oil ) have been successfully used in experimental animal models of inflammation and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis .
12 This technique has been successfully used in our laboratory for the identification of B virus DNA in previous cases of fatal B virus infection .
13 Variants of this Radburn design have been much used in post-war Britain , so that culs-de-sac and loop-streets are familiar elements in post-war housing areas .
14 This Weberian line has been much used in International Relations , especially in the subfield known as Foreign Policy Analysis .
15 Both have the same medicinal properties , but salad burnet has been much used in salads , from the days of the Elizabethans .
16 Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information .
17 None of these notes have been directly used in the essay plan ( p.92 ) .
18 Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives .
19 The fossil remains of beetles , including the hard elytra , have been extensively used in the interpretation of the climatic history of the Pleistocene ice advances and retreats , because the species of beetle present in peat deposits change in harmony with the climatic fluctuations .
20 Already this system has been extensively used in the USA where , increasingly , the Medicare system is reimbursing hospitals on the basis of a price per DRG .
21 A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute .
22 They have been extensively used in education to study the manner in which educational institutions such as schools vary and the factors which explain such variation .
23 Aluminium powder has been extensively used in this way ( ‘ silver' paint is a convenient source of sufficiently fine particles ) , particularly in silicone oils and other highly viscous liquids .
24 The example of the less traditional manufacturing regions of Italy has been well used in the literature .
25 Our aid to Kenya has been well used in helping to improve living standards and prospects for the poorest .
26 Exhibition area in foyer of the Centre , which has been well used in the past by CEDC , and which has the advantage of being open on Saturdays .
27 At national level , informal contacts have been important in maintaining long-term bargaining relationships , for example by ‘ clarifying ’ the signals sent out by union conferences , and indeed have been sometimes used in progressing major negotiating issues .
28 Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods .
29 As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent .
30 The New York City Bar Association claimed in a report released yesterday that torture has been commonly used in Turkish police stations and that the Turkish legal system has failed to respond to it .
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