Example sentences of "[verb] [been] used for [adj] " 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 | Mefenamic acid is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been used for other gynaecological problems . |
| 3 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 4 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The exceptional elevations of Chiswick House , particularly at the rear with the marvellous old Cedars of Lebanon , has been used for countless ‘ back-grounds ’ for high-class advertisements , films and television programmes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 9 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 13 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |
| 16 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 17 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 18 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 19 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 20 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 21 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 22 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 23 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 24 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 25 | Outside the tomb entrance was a larger , rectangular altar which may have been used for sacrificial offerings . |
| 26 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 27 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |
| 28 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories . |
| 30 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |