Example sentences of "have been used for [det] " in BNC.

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1 A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose .
2 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 .
3 The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry .
4 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
5 G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae .
6 Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it .
7 It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis .
8 These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years .
9 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 .
10 BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes .
14 It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose …
15 This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant .
16 James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley .
17 It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) .
18 It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store .
19 The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit .
20 The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black .
21 And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements .
22 They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators .
23 Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose .
24 In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design .
25 Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree .
26 IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter .
27 It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity .
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