Example sentences of "been [adv] used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human rights organisations remain wary of publishing figures because they have been widely used as propaganda . |
| 2 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 3 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 4 | This type of system which originated in the United Kingdom has been widely used throughout Europe and is gaining in popularity in the United States of America and Japan . |
| 5 | Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al . |
| 6 | COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in research laboratories , its clinical utility in chronic hepatitis C is not established . |
| 8 | The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) . |
| 9 | Both have the same medicinal properties , but salad burnet has been much used in salads , from the days of the Elizabethans . |
| 10 | Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control . |
| 11 | They have been extensively used in education to study the manner in which educational institutions such as schools vary and the factors which explain such variation . |
| 12 | Alternatively it could have developed as another example of a prey-killing poison that has been secondarily used against attackers . |