Example sentences of "[verb] [been] use [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation has been used continuously for some 2000 years in Indomalesia , each patch being cropped for only 2 or 3 years , the people at a density of some five or fewer cultivators per km 2 . |
| 2 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 3 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 4 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 5 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |