Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collect any powders , tablets or anything you think may have been used to take the drug . |
| 2 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 3 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 4 | The cemetery , which probably contains at least 300 Dark Age graves , may have been used by the inhabitants of a statelet possibly known as the Barringas - ‘ the people of Barra ’ . |
| 5 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 6 | In discussing the question of the possible use of the atomic bomb , Farrar-Hockley concludes that it is unlikely that the bombs could have been used in Korea without prior consultation , as ‘ honour and American political interest would have combined to militate against such a course ’ ( p. 386 ) . |
| 7 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 8 | It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle . |
| 9 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 10 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 11 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 12 | The only possible way your ‘ burning ’ could have been used was as yet another tool of control . |
| 13 | The text is illustrated with examples drawn mainly from the Roman world , although different examples from other periods and cultures could easily have been used instead . |
| 14 | This absence of small denominations would clearly limit the extent to which coinage could have been used . |
| 15 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 16 | The project in Mickley , Northumberland , involving hundreds of children aged from seven to 11 , was made possible by the chance discovery in the old school 's attic of equipment which would have been used in 1892 . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock accused the Conservatives of squandering £100 billion of North Sea oil receipts on tax cuts when it could have been used to rebuild the country . |
| 18 | Everything in the sale will have been used in films , television programmes and stage plays . |
| 19 | ‘ That cabinet would have been used in that Granada programme about India , I think , yes Jewel in the Crown , that 's it , ’ he said vaguely during a guided tour of the warehouse . |
| 20 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 21 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 22 | They would have been used for transport between the Stroudwater Canal and Stratford Mills . |
| 23 | RIGHT : One of the most interesting buildings at Beards Mill is this early 19th century wool store , which may also have been used for weaving . |
| 24 | Joyce accepted that any one of these weapons may have been used or even two of the same used in conjunction . |
| 25 | Do you think , lad , that it might have been used to bring the body into the alley ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 27 | The lance would have been used both to stab and as a weapon from throwing or as a lance on horseback . |
| 28 | The halberd was not introduced extensively into England or France until as late as the fourteenth century , but may well have been used by the Germanic troops of Barbarossa , particularly those vassals from the more northerly territories . |
| 29 | There was a glimpse of the shoe-eating scene from The Gold Rush ; but there were other comic classic moments that might have been used . |
| 30 | A ladder must have been used to gain access when the mill was in use . |