Example sentences of "been used in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , modules such as ‘ Work experience ’ and ‘ Enterprise activity ’ ( each also certificated at three levels and concerning process skills ) have been used in European projects . |
| 2 | Hence the rate of return on household savings is the relevant measure of the social opportunity cost of public sector resources that could have been used in private consumption . |
| 3 | We shall start with a description of the banking system , and then proceed to consider the types of monetary policies that have been used in recent years , and their effects . |
| 4 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 5 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 6 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 7 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 8 | The same device has been used in various areas of government activity where the British public is ignorant or indifferent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 11 | These to date have been used in small quantities as chemical feedstock . |
| 12 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 15 | This method has been used in such systems as ROBOT ( Harris , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Ascorbic acid has been used in pharmacological doses for more than 20 years . |
| 17 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 18 | ORGANS from tragic schoolgirl Paula Moss have been used in SIX transplant operations . |
| 19 | Homophony is probably the commonest choral texture of all , and has been used in all periods . |
| 20 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 21 | This definition has been used in other studies . |
| 22 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 23 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 24 | Such chalets have been used in other parts of the country and are also common on the continent . |
| 25 | Battery pods containing groups of AA cells have been used in vast numbers by nearly all detector manufacturers for many years . |
| 26 | Competition , as many writers have told us , is a term that has been used in innumerable senses . |
| 27 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 28 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 29 | Prayer rugs ( pls. 5 , 30–31 ) have been used in Muslim countries for centuries , and are an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 30 | The twenties biplanes and monoplanes have been used in major films like Aces High , The Great Waldo Pepper , and Indiana Jones . |