Example sentences of "been used by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 2 | The very exhaustive treatise Contemporary Percussion by Reginald Smith Brindle ( O.U.P. ) goes in great detail into the technique of writing for and playing a vast number of percussion instruments and contains quotations from many modern works , as well as a 45 rpm recording of the sounds of many of the tuned and untuned instruments which have been used by modern composers . |
| 3 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 4 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 5 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 6 | The majority of the following questionnaires have been used by other authors for research purposes , so that they are accompanied by some normative data . |
| 7 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 8 | The database has been used by one group of learning support pupils who have used the printouts not only to find the books they want but also to organize their projects , using the questions as section headings . |
| 9 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 11 | There was discussion on the need for articles encouraging people to set up new groups : Fillan produced some useful material on this , and Eileen referred to studies developed by her group which had subsequently been used by six others . |
| 12 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Spines — This expression has been used by various writers with considerable latitude but is here confined to outgrowths of the cuticle which are more or less thorn-like in form . |
| 15 | ‘ Femaleness ’ has been used by radical feminists as a justification for more co-operative , less competitive forms of learning , as if these were inherent in all female cultures . |
| 16 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |
| 17 | Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples . |
| 18 | It was a male preserve , consecrated to sport , where guns were cleaned after a day 's shooting and guests would be shown valuable old museum pieces that had been used by earlier Arbuthnots . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The change in refractive index of the polymer with temperature has been used by several workers to establish T g . |
| 21 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 22 | The term ’ perceptron ’ has been used by different people to mean different things , but its definition seems to have stabilised by now . |
| 23 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 24 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 25 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 28 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |