Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 2 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 3 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 4 | More recently , this dock has been used for the importation of Fiat cars ( it used to be used for the export of British cars ) . |
| 5 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 8 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 9 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 10 | I would imagine this dog has been used in dog fighting . |
| 11 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 12 | This method has been used with increasing success since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | This method has been used in such systems as ROBOT ( Harris , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | This definition has been used in other studies . |
| 15 | Subsequently this scale has been used in Melton Mowbray by Jagger et al . |
| 16 | Extensive oesophagogastric devascularisation combined with splenectomy , pyloromyotomy , vagotomy , and oesophageal transection has been widely practised in Japan while a modified version of this operation has been used in Great Britain . |
| 17 | This approach has been used in the United States and Canada . |
| 18 | This approach has been used by Moseley ( 1979 ) to measure accessibility by constructing a time-space matrix for each rural/social/age group ( rows ) and for each rural service needed ( columns ) . |
| 19 | This is the first time in Britain … possibly in Europe that this legislation has been used for enforcement in this way |
| 20 | Spines — This expression has been used by various writers with considerable latitude but is here confined to outgrowths of the cuticle which are more or less thorn-like in form . |
| 21 | This idea has been used in developing the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis , which is summarized in Appendix 7 . |
| 22 | This principle has been used in an ingenious way in hydrogels . |
| 23 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 24 | This power has been used by the police in a variety of ways ; to ask demonstrators to leave the scene , even when acting peacefully . |
| 25 | The method described in this section has been used by Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) to obtain a class of solutions which appears to generalize the Szekeres solutions . |