Example sentences of "[to-vb] been used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is too small to have been used for storage or drying , but would have been suitable for the mistress of the house to sit at her small wheel to spin . |
| 2 | Although the wood is presumed to have been used for firesetting. the association between mining activity and the sample is rarely certain . |
| 3 | It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room . |
| 4 | Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast . |
| 5 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 6 | A SWORD said to have been used by poet Lord Byron in the 1823 Greek independence war is likely to fetch £4,000 at a London auction . |
| 7 | A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview . |
| 8 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |
| 9 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |