Example sentences of "have [been] used for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 2 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 3 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 6 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 7 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 8 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 11 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 12 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 17 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 18 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 19 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 20 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 21 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |