Example sentences of "[adv] been use [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize .
2 A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med .
3 The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage .
4 Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase .
5 These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors .
6 A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building .
7 The money has not been used for that purpose .
8 Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony .
9 Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years .
10 Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years .
11 Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel .
12 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
13 Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time .
14 Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ .
15 The materials have not been used within traditional library lessons , but have been integrated into day-to-day practice of teaching .
16 Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again .
17 Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides .
18 The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ .
19 After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance .
20 If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time .
21 The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer .
22 But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann .
23 The condemned techniques had already been used in experimental interrogations in the month or two prior to the UUAC general strike and had demonstrated how effective they were in inducing confessions .
24 Some of them have already been used in this book .
25 For the Japanese no such decision was necessary because their home market had always been used to small cars .
26 Walnut , beech and deal have also been used at different times .
27 Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children .
28 Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children .
29 More recently , archive sources have also been used in newer computer formats , in databases , viewdata programmes or telex simulations for instance .
30 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
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