Example sentences of "[verb] been use 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 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 3 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 4 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 5 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 6 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 7 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 8 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 9 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 10 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 11 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 12 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |
| 13 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 14 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 17 | Outside the tomb entrance was a larger , rectangular altar which may have been used for sacrificial offerings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 21 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 22 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 23 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 26 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 27 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 28 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 " . |