Example sentences of "been used [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 2 | The term indeterminate colitis was originally proposed as a temporary histopathological category for such unclassified cases in fulminant disease but has recently been used clinically for patients with inflammatory bowel disease in whom the nature of the underlying disease can not be firmly established . |
| 3 | The most successfully exploited antiulcer flavonoid to date is solon ( 12 ) ( Sofalcone , SU88 , 2-carboxymethoxy-4 , 4-bis(3-methyl-2-butenyloxy)chalcone ) which has been used clinically in Japan since March 1984 . |
| 4 | Traditionally , white papers have been used exclusively with watercolours because they contribute to the brilliance of the colours . |
| 5 | A further convent was subsequently founded in Wynberg , Cape Town in 1952 , although both convents have been used exclusively by whites . |
| 6 | The second involves the settling of cells onto a slide surface through a sucrose , saline or other solution , and has been used principally for oocytes , but may be useful for spermatocytes if only a thin suspension is available . |
| 7 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 8 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 9 | Such agents have been used effectively in patients undergoing dental , orthopaedic , hepatic , vascular , and neurosurgery procedures , but most of the data on the use of such drugs have accrued from cardiac surgery . |
| 10 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 11 | Few teachers could remember what year they had undertaken any of the evaluation exercises , but the information from those who could suggests that the booklet had been used mostly by schools in 1980 and 1981 . |
| 12 | He covered both the World Championships in Rome in 1987 and the Seoul Olympic Games ( for Life magazine ) the following year , and has been used regularly in newspapers , Sunday supplements and running magazines . |
| 13 | Your study will be effective only if you are prepared to apply intelligently to your work certain well-known techniques , most of which have been used successfully from time immemorial . |
| 14 | This technique has been used successfully in life insurance and industrial selling but has application in many other areas also . |
| 15 | Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation ( NIPPV ) has been used successfully in patients with respiratory failure due to neuromuscular and skeletal disorders , but the outcome of treatment in patients with COAD is less well known . |
| 16 | Simple gravel and other aggregates have been used successfully in filters . |
| 17 | This Act has been used successfully by motorists , who have discovered that they had been deceived about the previous mileage covered by a second-hand car . |
| 18 | Complex derivatives of phenols , chlorinated and compounded with an anionic base , have been used widely as glassware agents in the licensed trades until the advent of bisguanides . |
| 19 | Mike Williamson , Watercare 's technical manager , adds that the CoastGuard type system has been used widely in America to keep coastlines clean for tourists . |
| 20 | Since Portersept was introduced more than two years ago , it has been used widely in hotels and health centres . |
| 21 | The project has been used widely throughout England , Wales , and Northern Ireland since becoming available in 1986 . |
| 22 | This term has , in practice , been used generally by dealers who want to impress their clients . |
| 23 | ‘ We will assist in the removal of old facilities that have been used previously in operations using radioactive or other hazardous materials , ’ he added . |
| 24 | There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage . |
| 25 | For example , in most parts of the world , wood has been used extensively for building , fuel , tools , and even machinery , yet only in exceptional circumstances does wood survive . |
| 26 | Ever since the spread of offset-litho printing and the photocopier , documents have been used extensively in facsimile to give some of the flavour and feel of the original document . |
| 27 | This preliminary psychiatric interview is regarded as a predictor of more serious psychological problems , and has been used extensively by researchers from the MRC 's Social and Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Sheffield . |
| 28 | These have been used retrospectively by Pissarides ( 1982 ) who showed that the percentage of the 18-year-old cohort gaining two or more A-levels had responded to changes in real permanent income and the ratio of expected earnings of manual workers to university graduates . |
| 29 | Downstairs , on one side of the front door was a large sitting-room and on the other a bathroom which had certainly started life as the front parlour and had probably been used only on occasions of wedding parties and funerals . |
| 30 | So far it has been used only in animal experiments , but it certainly seems effective in reducing the severity of attacks of herpes in guinea-pigs . |