Example sentences of "[been] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 2 | The term ‘ partially sighted ’ has been used over the years to refer to pupils who have vision useful for all school tasks but require adaptations to teaching methods and materials in order to accomplish them . |
| 3 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 4 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It has not been used outside of CASE before . |
| 7 | Green verdite has been used below the dado rail and for the matching tops of the dressing table and washstand . |
| 8 | Erm the rose i has been used through the centuries . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ . |
| 11 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 12 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 13 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
| 14 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 15 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 16 | On the wall is the Soil Association certificate showing that no nasty pesticides have been used on the farm for two years . |
| 17 | She recognised the stitching that had been used on the elephant . |
| 18 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 19 | In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Studded rubber has been used on the stairs where the handrails are oak . |
| 22 | More and more sprays and chemicals have been used on the food we eat and the land on which it is grown and ingenious methods of preserving the appearance of freshness have been devised . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 25 | Then came that great morning when the newly made electron microscope had been used on polio slides . |
| 26 | In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate . |
| 27 | Fabrics have been used on the walls in all the living areas . |
| 28 | Using paint from the Crown Expressions range , the wall in the foreground and the shutters are in Carmolito F3–80 emulsion , the tongue and grooving and the fireplace is in Caribou K2–100 eggshell , whilst Ponderosa Pine has been used on the wall in the backroom and picked out in the berry stencil . |
| 29 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 30 | Having said that , this aggressive , attacking style has been used on country records for 30-odd years — listen to sessions by Glen Campbell , James Burton , Chet , Fred Carter Jr. , Wayne Moss and the like , from back in the early '60s . |