Example sentences of "[verb] [been] used for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 2 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |
| 3 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 4 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 5 | Outside the tomb entrance was a larger , rectangular altar which may have been used for sacrificial offerings . |
| 6 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |
| 7 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 9 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 10 | The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 . |
| 11 | Although this procedure had been used for administrative purposes in Normandy ( where the English example of Domesday Book was an inspiration ) and in Anjou before Geoffrey le Bel 's conquest of Normandy , the Feoda marked an important step in its use in eastern France . |
| 12 | Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " . |
| 13 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
| 14 | Plant subjects in the same lunchboxes that had been used for previous experiments were placed on a stand and viewed . |
| 15 | These tests have been used for individual student assessment and as instruments for the product evaluation of instructional programmes . |
| 16 | Cheaper , mass-produced furniture may have dowel joints instead of tenons , and you may find that screws have been used for makeshift repairs in the past . |
| 17 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 18 | Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort . |
| 19 | Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons . |
| 20 | Micropalaeontological studies on recovered core samples have been used for stratigraphical studies on behalf of petroleum exploration companies . |
| 21 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |