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

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1 Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ .
2 It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) .
3 It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price .
4 It has been used on many ceremonial occasions over the past 25 years and serves as a constant reminder of the common history and friendship shared .
5 Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale .
6 The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows .
7 Bolts have also been used on some of the wilder walls of Cheddar Gorge to establish , bolts notwithstanding , some of the most challenging climbs in the region .
8 For example , the laws of optics , derived by induction from the results of laboratory experiments , have been used on numerous occasions in the design of optical instruments and these instruments have functioned satisfactorily .
9 However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year .
10 Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR .
11 Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) .
12 They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys .
13 This method has been used with increasing success since the middle of the nineteenth century .
14 Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children .
15 Though conceived for Third World kids the video has also been used with inner-city kids in Washington and New York and with Canadian Indian children .
16 While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion .
17 Whether the teaching unit has been used with other classes — if so , whether the experience changed the teacher 's approach to its use .
18 Bt var israelensis ( Bti ) rapidly became the basis for commercial products for mosquito control and has been used with considerable success in many countries .
19 Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection .
20 Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically , it does seem to work in practice , and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy .
21 The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers .
22 A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) .
23 the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation
24 If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all .
25 Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price .
26 These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors .
27 Walnut , beech and deal have also been used at different times .
28 There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time .
29 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
30 This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening .
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