Example sentences of "[been] used by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 2 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 3 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 4 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
| 5 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 6 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 7 | The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park . |
| 8 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 9 | The drawing and new evidence about cars suspected of having been used by the bombers , has prompted police to call 1,500 Deal residents for further interviews later this week with 50 officers at a church hall . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 12 | The advent of the single market in 1992 has been used by Mr Haughey as a pretext for renewing his offer of direct talks with Northern Ireland Unionists . |
| 13 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 14 | The Corporation of the City of London had long maintained a non-denominational burial ground , though it had predominantly been used by Dissenters . |
| 15 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 16 | In the following year the President argued that man 's nature had been used by God and that state-imposed collective responsibility was unnecessary : Christian altruism had worked through an ‘ inevitable though almost undetected stimulation of Egoism ’ . |
| 17 | Waters Lunniss ' Richard Larner says the N & P service has been used by staff of neigbouring companies wanting cash from shares bought through incentive schemes . |
| 18 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |
| 19 | The car had been used by Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McAuley . |
| 20 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 21 | Even the medium of an academic thesis ( 1978 ) has been used by John Crompton , her colleague at Newcastle University , to express his scorn rather than offer a cool evaluation . |
| 22 | Many teachers have felt considerable frustration when uncertainty , for example at national level , has been used by heads as an excuse to avoid school planning beyond the immediate future . |
| 23 | These tactics have been used by unions in Mexico , where cooptation through the state bureaucracy has taken place as the labour movement is integrated into the organisation of the governing party . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 25 | The Queen noted in her journal that it would all have been much better had she had chloroform , which had been used by Victoria 's physicians in similar circumstances . |
| 26 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In Britain and other industrial societies , retirement policies have been used by employers , including the Government , to reduce and re-structure their workforces in response to both the constant pressure to increase productivity and cyclical changes in the demand for labour . |
| 29 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 30 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |