Example sentences of "[vb base] been used [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport . |
| 2 | Several Y-specific genes have been used for sex typing . |
| 3 | The fact of the child 's puzzlement is due to his being a victim of the way in which the dogmatic religions of the world have been used for child indoctrination , resulting in the perpetuation of the inherent superstitions and subsequent evils that have shamed religion throughout civilised time . |
| 4 | Banks rather than state grants have been used for investment capital as part of a strategy to protect that autonomy . |
| 5 | Indeed , Crone said in his report that ‘ … the examination of these fake specimens shed no light at all on the main question as to whether mycotoxins have been used as warfare agents in Laos or Kampuchea ’ . |
| 6 | Inter-strain differences in the amount of C-banded material occurs between certain autosomes ( 11 ) and have been used as cell markers in chimaeras ( 12 ) . |
| 7 | Already , and much publicised , we have the Tanzanian alternative whereby cumulative records of performance and teachers ' reports have been used alongside examination marks to determine who goes to secondary school . |
| 8 | " Keeper of the Keys " is one of many games which have been used by drama teachers over the years . |
| 9 | Some of his expert systems have been used in plant/factory environments for several years ( i.e. COATEX for the process industry , ESEMA for manufacturing industry , etc. ) bringing benefits amounting to millions of pounds to AES Ltd customers . |
| 10 | All these methods have been used in nurse education in recent years and reflect the student-centred approaches being adopted by many nurse educators . |
| 11 | Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically . |
| 12 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |
| 13 | Concrete hulls , reinforced with glass-fibre rather than steel , have been used in boat building for many years . |
| 14 | The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system . |