Example sentences of "[vb infin] been use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 2 | Many ordinary everyday objects and buildings could have been used for religious purposes , but this would not be detectable from archaeological evidence alone . |
| 3 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 4 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 5 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 6 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 7 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 8 | Outside the tomb entrance was a larger , rectangular altar which may have been used for sacrificial offerings . |
| 9 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 10 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 11 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 12 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 13 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 14 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 15 | The project in Mickley , Northumberland , involving hundreds of children aged from seven to 11 , was made possible by the chance discovery in the old school 's attic of equipment which would have been used in 1892 . |
| 16 | Hence the rate of return on household savings is the relevant measure of the social opportunity cost of public sector resources that could have been used in private consumption . |
| 17 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 18 | ‘ That cabinet would have been used in that Granada programme about India , I think , yes Jewel in the Crown , that 's it , ’ he said vaguely during a guided tour of the warehouse . |
| 19 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 20 | Labour leader John Smith said there was concern that equipment was supplied which could have been used against British personnel and that the truth about a secret change in policy appeared to have been concealed from the public . |