Example sentences of "[been] used [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 2 | In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate . |
| 3 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 4 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 5 | When one has been used to the nearest neighbours being several fields away , it would n't do to have someone else 's door or window overlooking every part of the house . |
| 6 | There is really little point in scolding the puppy at this stage , especially if it has not been used to the big outdoors before . |
| 7 | Although all three techniques have been used in the past , they have not been used as the prime form of monetary policy . |
| 8 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 9 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |
| 10 | In others the palette knife has been used along the top edge to establish a horizontal band with a raised edge that casts a shadow and produces a distinct demarcation two inches from the top . |
| 11 | At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities . |
| 12 | Each of these derived vectors ( pAcAB3 , pAcAB4 ) have been used for the simultaneous expression of three or four bluetongue virus ( BTV ) genes respectively . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 14 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 15 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 16 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 17 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 18 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 19 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 20 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 21 | However , for reasons previously stated these have not been used in the present design . |
| 22 | This enables water that has been used in the final rinse for previous dishes to be boosted on the next batch to clear off detergents . |
| 23 | It had long been used in the Middle East and , in Europe , was employed in areas subject to Moorish influence like Spain , Sicily and even Provence . |
| 24 | Additional scat samples were obtained from captive mongooses and genets in London Zoo in order to compare the degrees of digestion , but the samples from the captive animals have not been used in the statistical comparisons . |
| 25 | Induced hypothermia is used intraoperatively during cardiopulmonary bypass and has also been used in the intensive care management of cerebral oedema . |
| 26 | Because multiple exemplars of each junction have been used in the previous studies this information would have been nearly identical in all six exemplars of each junction . |
| 27 | But they did n't change it because the only one of similar age available to them had been used in the previous match when Waqar took seven for 87 against Gloucestershire . |
| 28 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 29 | WATER-BASED PAINTING mediums have been used from the earliest times by artists . |
| 30 | The second major issue which I believe had been used against the new settlement as a an appropriate Greater York area , is that it 's inconsistent with erm current recent central government planning advice , and basically the argument is that the proposals for the new settlement are contrary to er planning policy guidance notes three and twelve , and draft er P P G thirteen , if I can deal with P P G thirteen first of all , and the observation of Mr Curtis that the new settlement is a last resort , erm now I could find no reference to that at all erm in P P G three , or even a sentiment that at planning policy er that a new settlement should be regarded erm as a policy of last resort . |