Example sentences of "have been used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 32 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 33 | What denomination of coinage would this weight have been used for during James I reign ? |
| 34 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 35 | Without his influence , the vast energy expended on Wissenschaft over the centuries might have been used for purposes of individual or national aggrandizement . |
| 36 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 37 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 38 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 39 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 40 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 41 | I checked with Morrison , the chauffeur at Orme Gardens , and he was suspicious that the Datsun may have been used on the Saturday night . ’ |
| 42 | The mint mark STR might have been used at Treveri ( Trier in Germany ) , but it is rather suspect . |
| 43 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 44 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 45 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 46 | ‘ used by virtue of that licence ’ In other words the vehicle concerned must have been used under the trade licence and not under a normal vehicle excise licence for an offence to contravene the law relating to trade licences . |
| 47 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 48 | The cemetery , which probably contains at least 300 Dark Age graves , may have been used by the inhabitants of a statelet possibly known as the Barringas - ‘ the people of Barra ’ . |
| 49 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 50 | The halberd was not introduced extensively into England or France until as late as the fourteenth century , but may well have been used by the Germanic troops of Barbarossa , particularly those vassals from the more northerly territories . |
| 51 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 52 | They must have been used by the painter of the bull depicted on the flat side of a crystal plaque found at Knossos . |
| 53 | In cases where the souterrain was too large for storage of one village 's produce , it may have been used by the chief of an area as a sort of tithe barn for goods paid to him as tax . |
| 54 | As for the farm butter , it is being borne away by the purchasers in the great baskets which look as if they might have been used by the Scarlet Pimpernel to smuggle refugee aristos out of Paris . |
| 55 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 56 | I agree with you , the pointed base does suggest that it may have been used by a travelling craftsman . |
| 57 | The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary . |
| 58 | Anything would do , but it must have been used by him . |
| 59 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 60 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |