Example sentences of "has be used by " in BNC.
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1 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
2 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
3 | The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park . |
4 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
5 | The advent of the single market in 1992 has been used by Mr Haughey as a pretext for renewing his offer of direct talks with Northern Ireland Unionists . |
6 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
7 | Waters Lunniss ' Richard Larner says the N & P service has been used by staff of neigbouring companies wanting cash from shares bought through incentive schemes . |
8 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
9 | Even the medium of an academic thesis ( 1978 ) has been used by John Crompton , her colleague at Newcastle University , to express his scorn rather than offer a cool evaluation . |
10 | Many teachers have felt considerable frustration when uncertainty , for example at national level , has been used by heads as an excuse to avoid school planning beyond the immediate future . |
11 | The data can be revealing : one technique which has been used by HMI is to follow two classes in a given year group : the one with the highest attendance and the one with the lowest . |
12 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
13 | The method described in this section has been used by Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) to obtain a class of solutions which appears to generalize the Szekeres solutions . |
14 | Local government has seen the growth of intra-as well as inter-party politics , and has been used by both major parties to promote ‘ radical ’ policies . |
15 | It has been used by the Royal Family , and is now used by the Royal Household and senior railway staff . |
16 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
17 | Rich in essential fat soluble vitamins A and D , fish oil has been used by the whole family for the maintenance of healthy joints and for general well-being . |
18 | It has been used by the Portuguese Admiralty as a radio station since 1925 . |
19 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
20 | The most common example of time out has been used by generations of parents . |
21 | However , an amnesty law passed in 1978 , which granted immunity to the perpetrators of human rights violations , has been used by the courts to block full investigations into these cases . |
22 | ‘ 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 . |
23 | Also , the associations that will be discussed , and the interpretations of them in postclassical terms that will be offered , should not be seen as suggesting the operation of ‘ causes ’ or ‘ determinants ’ , even where such language has been used by those involved in establishing the associations . |
24 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
25 | So ‘ bureaucratic ’ pluralism has been used by some in recognizing the more important role of Japanese civil servants ; this has been further qualified as ‘ bureaucratic-inclusionary ’ pluralism to suggest that the widest possible range of citizen consultation is used to assess the national interest . |
26 | The social psychology of G. H. Mead has been used by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in their Social Construction of Reality ( 1967 ) . |
27 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
28 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
29 | ( 34 ) and , more recently , the collection of eggs for human in vitro fertilization following hCG administration has been used by Angell et at . |
30 | This power has been used by the police in a variety of ways ; to ask demonstrators to leave the scene , even when acting peacefully . |