Example sentences of "been used [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had such language been used of an Anglican or Roman Catholic Eucharist the user would have quickly been castigated by Victorian Nonconformists as a ‘ wafer worshipper ’ . |
| 2 | In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton . |
| 3 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 4 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 5 | ’ there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle ‘ The proof of insurance falls to the defence once it has been established by the prosecution that the motor vehicle has been used on a road ( Philcox v Carberry [ 1960 ] Crim LR 563 ) . |
| 6 | It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale . |
| 7 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 8 | Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 9 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 10 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |
| 11 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 12 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 13 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 14 | Designers ' Saturday has traditionally been used as a launching pad for designs and this year is no exception . |
| 15 | Through the ages these western seaways have been used as a highway by settlers and saints , pilgrims and pirates and traders and travellers . |
| 16 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 17 | Vai is a recognised beauty spot and has been used as a film location . |
| 18 | Give them a good shake , in case an interesting piece of paper has been used as a bookmark . |
| 19 | Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object . |
| 20 | Since 1936 the Hall of Mirrors has been used as a concert hall . |
| 21 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |
| 22 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 23 | The Thornton Gate Mineral sidings , which since 1963 have been used as a rail store , showing car 170 towing a train of rail bogies . |
| 24 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 25 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 26 | As Stoker argues above , contracting out has largely been used as a threat to achieve other forms of change , often by senior bureaucrats to gain concessions from and changes in work practices by staff at lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 27 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 29 | The Mountie said grudgingly that a blood-covered rolled-up sheet of plastic had been found on the track near the area where Angelica must have been battered , and it could have been used as a poncho , and it was being investigated for blood type and fingerprints . |
| 30 | It was the same in the Loire , at the Chateau de Chavigny , where the famous mirrored salon , built for the seventh baron de Chavigny , had been used as a shooting-gallery . |