Example sentences of "[vb -s] been used by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method described in this section has been used by Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) to obtain a class of solutions which appears to generalize the Szekeres solutions . |
| 2 | Various ways in which the term has been used by philosophers … |
| 3 | The social psychology of G. H. Mead has been used by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in their Social Construction of Reality ( 1967 ) . |
| 4 | This approach has been used by Moseley ( 1979 ) to measure accessibility by constructing a time-space matrix for each rural/social/age group ( rows ) and for each rural service needed ( columns ) . |
| 5 | The use of COMMUNITEL as a package linked to the use of Prestel and the development of information skills is well documented in the Houghton Regis School project and has been used by Prestel Education as publicity material The potential uses of such packages can be seen by examining the different ways in which school librarians and pupils can effectively present information in a novel and professional way . |
| 6 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 7 | The most common example of time out has been used by generations of parents . |
| 8 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 9 | An additional difficulty with the central-peripheral distinction as it has been used by researchers is the rather ad hoc definition of the difference . |
| 10 | Oakeshott 's ( 1962 ) distinction between technical and practical knowledge , which itself echoes Aristotle , has been used by Eraut ( 1985 ) in a discussion of professional knowledge . |
| 11 | In other contexts , the illuminative observation approach has been used by Oxford Polytechnic with more success . |
| 12 | The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park . |
| 13 | The data can be revealing : one technique which has been used by HMI is to follow two classes in a given year group : the one with the highest attendance and the one with the lowest . |
| 14 | Many teachers have felt considerable frustration when uncertainty , for example at national level , has been used by heads as an excuse to avoid school planning beyond the immediate future . |
| 15 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 16 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 17 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
| 18 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 19 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 20 | ( 34 ) and , more recently , the collection of eggs for human in vitro fertilization following hCG administration has been used by Angell et at . |
| 21 | Waters Lunniss ' Richard Larner says the N & P service has been used by staff of neigbouring companies wanting cash from shares bought through incentive schemes . |
| 22 | The advent of the single market in 1992 has been used by Mr Haughey as a pretext for renewing his offer of direct talks with Northern Ireland Unionists . |
| 23 | A polymerase stop assay , using Taq DNA polymerase has been used by Ponti et al . |
| 24 | This intercommoning by a number of vills seems to be another indicative factor of early estates and has been used by Della Hooke and William Ford in their study of such estates in the Midlands . |
| 25 | Even the medium of an academic thesis ( 1978 ) has been used by John Crompton , her colleague at Newcastle University , to express his scorn rather than offer a cool evaluation . |
| 26 | Since then it 's been used by Hereford and Worcester County Council to teach children sailing . |