Example sentences of "has [been] used [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically , it does seem to work in practice , and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy .
2 the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation
3 It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) .
4 A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose .
5 The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry .
6 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis .
10 These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different .
14 This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant .
15 Homophony is probably the commonest choral texture of all , and has been used in all periods .
16 This method has been used in such systems as ROBOT ( Harris , 1977 ) .
17 A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research .
18 In Section 8–2 , we outline the one-sector equilibrium growth model that has been used in most treatments of the dynamic effects of taxation .
19 This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations .
20 Since 1925 , it is true , gas has been used in some conflicts , including most recently in the Iran-Iraq war .
21 The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 .
22 The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies .
23 One type of ‘ natural ’ matching has been used in some studies of identical ( I ) ( about 1 in 5 ) and non-identical ( N ) twins .
24 It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning .
25 Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour .
26 The change in refractive index of the polymer with temperature has been used by several workers to establish T g .
27 If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book , the case is even stronger .
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