Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be use for " in BNC.

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1 This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements .
2 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 .
3 This provided ‘ a check from the buyers mortgagees point of view , that the money has been used for the purchase ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 More recently , this dock has been used for the importation of Fiat cars ( it used to be used for the export of British cars ) .
7 That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to .
8 In recent years , the SeHCAT test has been used for the determination of bile acid malabsorption .
9 This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems .
10 Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering .
11 These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are .
12 BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different .
13 Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground .
14 This is the first time in Britain … possibly in Europe that this legislation has been used for enforcement in this way
15 For illustrative purposes , only a simple example has been given here ; however , the approach has been used for a number of major investigations , including a study of the procedures of a local authority for making policy decisions about housing stock , covering in excess of fifteen thousand buildings .
16 Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall .
17 Here , the same powder-blue print has been used for the wallpaper , valance and chaircovering , while cream drapes combine to give an almost French flavour .
18 all the different types of variations fuck has been used for .
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 Pearloid sheet has been used for the scratchplate , again reminiscent of bygone days .
21 At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities .
22 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 .
23 So real slate has been used for the roofs , York stone for the internal shopping court , and crafted plasterwork for the ceilings .
24 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 .
25 Rosewood has been used for the fingerboard and bridge , and the machineheads are once again Grovers .
26 Rosewood has been used for the bridges , the headstock facings and the fingerboards and , unusually , to cover the rear of the headstock as well .
27 The upper part of the slope has been used for housing which takes full advantage of the views and the sun .
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