Example sentences of "been used [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 2 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 3 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 4 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 5 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 6 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 7 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 8 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 9 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 10 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 11 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 12 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |
| 13 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 16 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 17 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 18 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 19 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 20 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |
| 21 | This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations . |
| 22 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 23 | Miss Joyce could not afford to sue for libel , for which Legal Aid is not available , so she chose the ancient legal route of malicious falsehood which IS covered by legal aid but has never before been used in this way . |
| 24 | ALTHOUGH table forks have been used in this country since the middle of the 15th Century , they were not used in conjunction with knives until almost two centuries later . |
| 25 | Some of them have already been used in this book . |
| 26 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 27 | The following conversion rates have been used throughout this book : 1oz = 25g 1 fl oz = 25ml 1/2pt = 250ml |
| 28 | If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book , the case is even stronger . |
| 29 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 30 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |