Example sentences of "had been used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 2 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 3 | Then came that great morning when the newly made electron microscope had been used on polio slides . |
| 4 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 5 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 6 | The established main roads that had been used for traffic between the medieval towns , and had made their own width with the usage of centuries , were generally left untouched by any parish awards . |
| 7 | Eventually Maxim 's improvised and placed some leeks , which had been used for consomme " , in front of the King . |
| 8 | The present owners purchased the mill in 1976 after part of it had been used to house chickens and the mill-pond had been used for fish-farming . |
| 9 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 10 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 11 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 12 | When the new owners who proposed to convert the barn first saw it in 1978 , the whole structure had been used for stabling horses , and accordingly , brick partitions had been erected to form stalls inside . |
| 13 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 14 | His smile too , now that she came to consider it , had been used for effect , to charm , disarm . |
| 15 | He illustrated this by describing how alkaloids had been used as poisons since Roman times ( murder ) , through the discovery of the pain killing effects of morphine ( medicine ) and finally the hallucinogenic activity of LSD ( magic ) . |
| 16 | Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse . |
| 17 | Mr. Tony Favell , supported by Mr. David Harris , presented a Bill to remove from registers of common land and registers of town or village greens dwellinghouses registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 which had been used as dwellinghouses for a minimum of twenty years immediately prior to the commencement of that Act ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 24 February and to be printed . |
| 18 | Sir Bryan Carsberg , director general of Telecommunications , gave the order because operators had not raised £660,000 for a compensation fund to pay those whose phones had been used without permission . |
| 19 | On Feb. 6 Tunisian radio said that live ammunition had been used against demonstrators attacking National Guard headquarters in the southern towns of Souk al-Ahad and Kebili ; eight people were injured , including three National Guardsmen . |
| 20 | It had been used in India to control over-excitement and mania . |
| 21 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 22 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Shipping Gazette ’ stated that 300 tons of mahogany sawdust had been used in Britain to adulterate coffee . |
| 24 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 25 | Relations with Australia were also damaged in June by an admission from the PNG military that helicopters provided by the Australian government for transport and surveillance purposes had been used in February 1990 to dump the bodies of executed BRA rebels into the sea . |
| 26 | To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics . |
| 27 | A Ruger revolver found in a hedgerow near the car had been used in Mr McTasney 's murder , the court heard . |
| 28 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |
| 29 | The Biblical Commission , originally established to foster biblical scholarship , had been used by Pius X to repress it . |
| 30 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |