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

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1 A wide variety of appraisal techniques has been used including points scoring methods .
2 This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC .
3 Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit .
4 This conceptualization , no different intrinsically from that of " filling " , has been used with discretion in the systemic analysis of M. O'Connor. , His primary example is Num 23.7 :
5 I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy .
6 A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire , but be infertile .
7 Another form of repo which has been used at times of particularly heavy tax receipts by the government is one undertaken directly with the banks .
8 A downhole flowmeter for measuring the flow rates and water cut was run in the well , the first time it has been used in the North Sea , although a prototype has been used at Wytch Farm .
9 A gift from Mr J. M. Beecham in memory of Audrey Beecham has been used for Criminology .
10 Known for its skill and aggressiveness in dealing with its enemies it has been used for hunting from an early date in history .
11 It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also .
12 This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements .
13 The transhepatic puncture of the gall bladder has been used for cholecystography and cholangiography , for aspiration of bile or pus for culture in suspected cases of acute cholecystitis or empyema , and for biopsy of lesions within the gall bladder .
14 This is the first time in Britain … possibly in Europe that this legislation has been used for enforcement in this way
15 And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do .
16 Only about one quarter claim that it has been used for INSET purposes in their schools and even fewer claim that its use has resulted in any changes .
17 The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men .
18 Notice that the design which has been used for weaving does not show as with the sample woven with the smooth yarn , always select simple designs for weaving because the pattern in the fabric results almost entirely from the yarn and not from the needle selection .
19 Much of the land has been used for squatter settlements for refugees from the fighting in Mozambique , while other parts have been cleared for banana plantations .
20 Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall .
21 BELOW : The site was originally quite complex and has been used for cloth manufacture , flock and shoddy production .
22 A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot .
23 Such radio-carbon dating has been used on wood , charcoal , peat , organic mud and calcium carbonate in molluscs , foraminifera and bones .
24 Having said that , this aggressive , attacking style has been used on country records for 30-odd years — listen to sessions by Glen Campbell , James Burton , Chet , Fred Carter Jr. , Wayne Moss and the like , from back in the early '60s .
25 a vehicle which has been used on roads outside Great Britain , while it is being driven after its importation into Great Britain on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Great Britain to a place of residence of the owner or the journey from any such place where , by previous arrangement , the vehicle will be provided with such anchorage points and seat belts as will comply with requirements of this regulation ; or
26 This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers .
27 This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage .
28 For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west .
29 Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 .
30 This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water .
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