Example sentences of "[been] use [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 2 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 3 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 4 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 7 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 8 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 13 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |
| 14 | In Section 8–2 , we outline the one-sector equilibrium growth model that has been used in most treatments of the dynamic effects of taxation . |
| 15 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |
| 16 | One type of ‘ natural ’ matching has been used in some studies of identical ( I ) ( about 1 in 5 ) and non-identical ( N ) twins . |
| 17 | This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations . |
| 18 | ALTHOUGH table forks have been used in this country since the middle of the 15th Century , they were not used in conjunction with knives until almost two centuries later . |
| 19 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 20 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |