Example sentences of "method used [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 2 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 3 | A description of the methods used was later revised and issued by the Centre for Library and Information Management . |
| 4 | The census method used was adapted by Dr. Michael Hollings from W. B. Yapp 's Birds and Woods ( Oxford University Press , 1962 ) . |
| 5 | The first method used was sign language . |
| 6 | ‘ I see that the method used was to divert large amounts of money into a fund under the name of another firm , a non-existent firm I imagine . ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 8 | The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations . |
| 9 | The method used was partly theoretical but mainly empirical , and consisted in applying the non-linear regression option of a statistics package , BMDP . |
| 10 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 11 | The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al . |