Example sentences of "been used [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do . |
| 2 | Passive solar techniques have been used successfully in a number of British buildings . |
| 3 | Gender has been used historically as a basis of the organization of educational provision , whether in terms of separate schools or separate curricula ( David , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | This technique , originally developed by Annett et al ( 1971 ) , has been used extensively as a basis for training and retraining requirements ( Duncan , 1975 , Shepherd and Duncan , 1980 ) , and also for the study of job satisfaction ( Crawley and Spurgeon , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 6 | The original , unaltered version of the story had been used initially as a sample exercise in undergraduate stylistics tutorials . |