Example sentences of "been used [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong .
2 Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) .
3 The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before .
4 ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since .
5 In this article the word ‘ word-processor ’ has been used many times .
6 B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after .
7 In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet .
8 He looks promising and has been used this season as a replacment for Wallace .
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