Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method has been used with increasing success since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Whether the teaching unit has been used with other classes — if so , whether the experience changed the teacher 's approach to its use . |
| 3 | Bt var israelensis ( Bti ) rapidly became the basis for commercial products for mosquito control and has been used with considerable success in many countries . |
| 4 | Here , an unusual combination of ash and cherrywood has been used to superb effect . |
| 5 | There has been a trend in recent years for manufacturers to shorten their channels in order to control more effectively the distribution of their products , particularly where expensive advertising has been used to pre-sell the goods to the consumer . |
| 6 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 7 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 8 | One place where Westmorland slate has been used to great advantage is in the new Coventry Cathedral , but it can also be seen in vernacular building , particularly at Elterwater ( q.v. ) and Troutbeck . |
| 9 | Lustre powder has been used to great effect here , giving a lovely ephemeral glimmer to the castle . |
| 10 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 11 | Mefenamic acid is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been used for other gynaecological problems . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The same device has been used in various areas of government activity where the British public is ignorant or indifferent . |
| 16 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 17 | Ascorbic acid has been used in pharmacological doses for more than 20 years . |
| 18 | Competition , as many writers have told us , is a term that has been used in innumerable senses . |
| 19 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 20 | This definition has been used in other studies . |
| 21 | Acarbose is a pseudotetrascaccharide and has been used in clinical trials with insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes to control hyperglycaemia , improve the diabetic metabolic condition , and , if possible , to reduce the insulin requirements . |
| 22 | His work has been used in promotional material and featured in regional Catholic publications . |
| 23 | Madden has been used in short bursts during the Bombers ' opening games and the ruckman has complained that he has not been given enough playing time and that this is affecting his play . |
| 24 | This accounting method has been used in local government throughout its modern context in the UK , i.e. since 1835 ; indeed , it was used before that as well . |
| 25 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 26 | Literature is replete with tales of the power which old people have exercised over property and the way this has been used in intergenerational interactions . |
| 27 | The term has been used in diverse ways . |
| 28 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 29 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 30 | ‘ Femaleness ’ has been used by radical feminists as a justification for more co-operative , less competitive forms of learning , as if these were inherent in all female cultures . |