Example sentences of "[adv] been used [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this . |
| 2 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 3 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 4 | Furthermore such systems have not yet been designed to flood such a warehouse at the speed with which the fire will develop vertically and so far have only been used in conjunction with a sprinkler system at ceiling level . |
| 5 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 6 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 7 | This had evolved from the ancient single red R. gallica and had long been used in medicine . |
| 8 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 9 | Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1 , when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint . |
| 10 | ‘ The IASC has spent almost 20 years in developing basic standards and it is unfortunate that they have not been used in practice . |
| 11 | The second part is a review of examples of how the technology has already been used in education . |
| 12 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 13 | If all the gunpowder which has ever been used in war throughout the world could be contained on a single train with 50 tons of gunpowder in each freight car , the train would be 50 miles long . |
| 14 | These factors may account for the fact that the blackboard metaphor has not usually been used for anaphor resolvers , whose control structures are very often relatively simple , with different knowledge sources brought to bear in something like a predetermined order . |
| 15 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 16 | Conodonts have traditionally been used as form taxa , useful for stratigraphic correlation within Palaeozoic rocks . |
| 17 | But the conventional gesture ‘ to spin' has often been used in ballet . |
| 18 | This approach , which had earlier been used in relation to other fields such as architecture ( Knowles , 1974 ) embraces population ecology , system ecology , the city as a habitat , and then energy and material transfer in cities are used to highlight spatial contrasts within the city and between cities and also to differentiate cities from rural environments . |
| 19 | The definition of which places have previously been used for exchange activities will again lead to the identification of higher status sites . |
| 20 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |
| 21 | Modal compositions have commonly been used by sandstone or carbonate petrographers but Zuffa ( 1986 ) has demonstrated the importance of consideration of siliciclastic plus detailed carbonate components . |
| 22 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
| 23 | Most of the display has never been used in anger , or self defence . |