Example sentences of "been used [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 11 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 12 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |
| 15 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 16 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 17 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 18 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |