Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 2 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 3 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 4 | If we take seriously the notion of ‘ unlimited number ’ , there must be , for any lexical form , potential senses which have never been realised in use : equally , every lexical form has at least one relatively well-utilised sense . |
| 5 | Aldicarb , a pesticide used to control mites and nematodes that damage crops , has been withdrawn for use on bananas . |
| 6 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 7 | So far , compounds with less chlorine have been developed for use in commercial and domestic refrigeration units . |
| 8 | Self-instructional programmes have been developed for use with the MEDIATRON unit . |
| 9 | Instrumentation development A remotely operated horizontal shear-wave source has been developed for use on the sea bed . |
| 10 | Deck beam had been developed for use in shipbuilding and was patented in 1844 by James Kennedy and Thomas Vernon of Liverpool . |
| 11 | Thus , tests for organisms such as E coli and Shigella have been developed for use on drinking water supplies . |
| 12 | Sail camber has been formed by use of battens , either flat or of round section in sleeves from leading to trailing edge.Tensioned into compression , the battens become curved and the degree of camber is controlled by vertical stand-offs from the forward cross-spar . |
| 13 | This classification has been simplified for use by the UK General Household Survey , which uses the following categories : 1 Professional 2 Employers and managers 3 Intermediate and junior non-manual 4 Skilled manual 5 Semi-skilled manual and personal service 6 Unskilled manual ; unemployed ; those who have not worked . |
| 14 | The Collagen programme has been designed for use in the comfort and privacy of your own home . |
| 15 | A new Sickness Absence Certificate has been designed for use in sickness absence of seven days or less . |
| 16 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 17 | The fact that the dead wood has been shaped for use as a building material is of no consequence to a fungus or a beetle . |
| 18 | I mean that er all possibly threats had been secured by use of handcuffs and that there was no likelihood of anybody hiding er in the premises or certainly nobody in the premises with a firearm . |
| 19 | It has been written for use on microcomputers with the IBM PC or PS/2 style keyboards , including the RM Nimbus and the Amstrad PC . |
| 20 | Multi-media audio-visual teaching packages have been produced for use with the MEDIATRON unit developed by Vickery and Pratt at the University of London , in 1977 . |
| 21 | Recently a special polyester matting has been produced for use on very difficult stony soils . |
| 22 | A student-centred learning pack , ‘ Police Accident and Investigation ’ , has been produced for use in Standard Grade mathematics and made available to Secondary and Special Schools . |
| 23 | The Supreme Court on July 17 refused the request of a pregnant Californian woman to retain possession of a French-made abortion drug , RU-486 , which had not been approved for use in the USA . |
| 24 | The site has been bought for use by a local builder who plans to make a feature of its earlier history . |
| 25 | Using this technology , electrodes have been coated for use in an extremely wide variety of applications , including the cathodic protection of oil rigs and reinforced concrete bridges , and for use in electro-dialysis , metal plating and effluent treatment . |
| 26 | However , if part of that heartwood were found on an archaeological site , the radiocarbon result would not provide the date of usage of the wood , but rather a date three hundred radiocarbon years earlier , and more if it has been seasoned before use or re-used . |
| 27 | Furniture vans arrived bearing the finest antiques ( binoculars had been brought into use by now ) . |
| 28 | In 1928 a new Prayer Book had been authorised for use in the Anglican Church in England . |
| 29 | A certain amount of controversy has been generated by use of gas , a ‘ noble ’ fuel , for power generation . |
| 30 | So in OALD the examples support and enlarge on the definitions ; they are sentences or phrases showing the word or phrase which has been defined in use . |