Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order of the list of land birds is almost exactly the same as appears in Darwin 's 1839 Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle , so these notes must have been used by Darwin as the basis for his subsequent publication . |
| 2 | Without his influence , the vast energy expended on Wissenschaft over the centuries might have been used for purposes of individual or national aggrandizement . |
| 3 | The mint mark STR might have been used at Treveri ( Trier in Germany ) , but it is rather suspect . |
| 4 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 5 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 6 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 7 | As Raymond de Becker points out , they could have been used as gospel by the naive , or turned into parlour games by sceptics . |
| 8 | However , no finds of this type are known from Chedworth , although a number of agricultural implements were found in the excavations , including a plough-tip ; some other tools such as the spade-iron and mattock could have been used for gardening . |
| 9 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 10 | Such general schemes could have been used by craftsmen of little mathematical or geometrical ability . |
| 11 | But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians . |
| 12 | In discussing the question of the possible use of the atomic bomb , Farrar-Hockley concludes that it is unlikely that the bombs could have been used in Korea without prior consultation , as ‘ honour and American political interest would have combined to militate against such a course ’ ( p. 386 ) . |
| 13 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 14 | There are also Roman siegeworks which may have been used for exercises by troops from nearby temporary camps still visible around Pennymuir . |
| 15 | It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle . |
| 16 | Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps . |
| 17 | This may have been used in conjunction with a net , or on its own from an open boat . |
| 18 | Twelve kilometres to the north is the embayed island of Dia , which had its own port ; with a southerly aspect , it may have been used in emergencies when persistent north winds would have prevented ships intending to dock at Amnisos , Katsamba , or Agii Theodhori from leaving port . |
| 19 | They would have been used for transport between the Stroudwater Canal and Stratford Mills . |
| 20 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 21 | It would have been used in training by Canadian soldiers at Medstead during the second world war . |
| 22 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |
| 24 | Everything in the sale will have been used in films , television programmes and stage plays . |