Example sentences of "been much used [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 .
3 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 .
4 This Weberian line has been much used in International Relations , especially in the subfield known as Foreign Policy Analysis .
5 Both have the same medicinal properties , but salad burnet has been much used in salads , from the days of the Elizabethans .
6 Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information .
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