Example sentences of "has [been] used for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) .
2 A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose .
3 Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it .
4 The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry .
5 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis .
9 These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground .
13 BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different .
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