Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be used [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 2 | The yacht has been used as a model upon which all the Northshore Yacht Yards ' Vancouver 28s are based , but they do differ slightly from the original yacht . |
| 3 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Gilroy points out that rising street crime has been used as a justification for increased police militarisation , and blames this rise on the deviant activities of a minority of black youth . |
| 5 | Birth weight has been used as a measure of fetal growth but it is strongly dependent on gestational age . |
| 6 | A particular place in the fence has been used as a route to cross the railway . |
| 7 | ( Note that in chord 1 a tritone has been used as a consonance . |
| 8 | Beat to beat variability has been used as an indicator of hypovolaemia in preterm infants at risk of intraventricular haemorrhage . |
| 9 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 10 | The counting of published papers as a measure of the output of research has been used as a rather crude method of determining the productivity of research workers in some laboratories , such as by Vlachy . |
| 11 | ’ there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle ‘ The proof of insurance falls to the defence once it has been established by the prosecution that the motor vehicle has been used on a road ( Philcox v Carberry [ 1960 ] Crim LR 563 ) . |
| 12 | Another , on their economic importance , shows how male fern has been used as a cure for worms or as a love philtre , how clubmosses provide homoeopathic treatments for everything from hiccups to pre-menstrual tension , and how the mosquito fern plays a vital role in rice production . |
| 13 | The study will show to what extent the concept of flexibility has penetrated management thinking in the electronics industry and will show , through the use of detailed case analysis rather than survey evidence , the extent to which flexibility has been used as an ideology in which industrial decline is attributed to the restrictive practices of trade union organisation . |
| 14 | In what follows , the branch or sector has been used as a category in the first classification of father 's occupations , with skill as a secondary and more arguable subdivision . |
| 15 | The bill of exchange has been used as a method of raising short term finance since the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Finally , a pleasantly-grained veneer of dark ash has been used as a finish on the front and back of the headstock . |
| 17 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 18 | Mustard has been used as a flavouring in cooking for thousands of years , and has a worldwide reputation for enhancing a variety of savoury dishes . |
| 19 | Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering . |
| 20 | English , therefore , is an example of a way in which education has been used in an attempt to effect social changes ; arguably it is the only discipline ( and of course this will be discussed again later ) to be distinctively ‘ feminine ’ . |
| 21 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |
| 22 | Give them a good shake , in case an interesting piece of paper has been used as a bookmark . |
| 23 | Third , work absenteeism on account of illness has been used as an index of morbidity . |
| 24 | Unreasonableness has been used as a ground of challenge in a number of contexts : ( a ) To control the exercise of discretion as in the Wednesbury case . |
| 25 | Charlotte Bronte 's ‘ going away ’ dress has been used as a basis for the women 's gowns and the men 's costumes made from contemporary illustrations . |
| 26 | For illustrative purposes , only a simple example has been given here ; however , the approach has been used for a number of major investigations , including a study of the procedures of a local authority for making policy decisions about housing stock , covering in excess of fifteen thousand buildings . |
| 27 | The income — expenditure model has been used as a framework for justifying this role for fiscal policy because government expenditure and taxation directly , and fairly reliably , influence national income levels . |
| 28 | Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 29 | Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an enema or as a cleaning agent for endoscopes and may cause mucosal damage when applied to the surface of the gut wall . |
| 30 | Peter Oteng , senior officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in Birmingham , said : ‘ For years the ape or monkey has been used as a form of abuse to black people . |