Example sentences of "[verb] [been] use [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 2 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 3 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 4 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 5 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 6 | This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations . |
| 7 | If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book , the case is even stronger . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 10 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 11 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 12 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 13 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 14 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 15 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 16 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 17 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 18 | The following conversion rates have been used throughout this book : 1oz = 25g 1 fl oz = 25ml 1/2pt = 250ml |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH table forks have been used in this country since the middle of the 15th Century , they were not used in conjunction with knives until almost two centuries later . |
| 20 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 21 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |