Example sentences of "[been] used [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 2 | It was developed in WW2 for aircraft use and has been used since in car fuel . |
| 3 | Commercially available expert system shells have been used since most of the expert systems have been developed by engineering tradesmen , few of whom had a strong computing background . |
| 4 | Pentatonic scales ( scales of five notes ) have been used since the pyramids were built ( according to archaeological finds and to musicological deductions from pictures of flute , harp , and lute players ) , and are still used today , in abundance . |
| 5 | This method has been used since , and others have been added to it , including methods based on the effects of Jupiter on the paths of fly-by spacecraft . |
| 6 | It was the first time the cameras had been used since they were installed last year . |
| 7 | The criterion for determining whether there was a valid legacy was not therefore whether direct words had been used but whether the right form had been used . |
| 8 | A variety of media and substrata have been used but these will not be reviewed here because most experiments involve straightforward tissue or organ culture techniques which are well described elsewhere ( e.g. ref. 11 ) . |
| 9 | Xenogeneic sites such as the chick chorioallantoic membrane have been used but in general development is somewhat less predictable than when syngeneic mice serve as hosts . |
| 10 | Greg son ( 1987 : 5 ) identifies eight separate ways in which the term has been used but considers that these fall into three broad categories , the first concerned with ‘ the scale at which certain social and economic processes operate and the way in which the local , in the form of particular places , might relate to this ’ . |
| 11 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 12 | Antidiarrhoeal agents , broad spectrum antibiotics , cholestyramine , sulphasalazine , and oral corticosteroids have all been used but anecdotal experience suggests that satisfactory control of diarrhoea is rarely achieved . |
| 13 | it 's the way the words have been used that we 're interpreting wrong . |
| 14 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
| 15 | Trees on the slopes have been used for |
| 16 | These missiles have so far not been used because the Phnom Penh airforce has not yet deployed its Soviet helicopters and recently acquired MIG 21 jets in combat . |
| 17 | PCs have generally been used because of the cost of procurement and because they are more readily available within the Service . |
| 18 | As for my own research , there are some areas of it in which quantification has not been used because in these areas it was not necessary or appropriate for the purpose I had in mind ( see for example the discussions in chapter 5 ) . |
| 19 | In order to limit the degree of confusion that these factors may cause , the names of the traditional weaving areas ( Persia , Anatolia , the Caucasus , Afghanistan , Turkestan etc. ) have been used when discussing the weaving , history or design influences of their rugs , and the names of the modern states have been used when referring to purely commercial factors , such as import tariffs , government actions and subsidies . |
| 20 | In order to limit the degree of confusion that these factors may cause , the names of the traditional weaving areas ( Persia , Anatolia , the Caucasus , Afghanistan , Turkestan etc. ) have been used when discussing the weaving , history or design influences of their rugs , and the names of the modern states have been used when referring to purely commercial factors , such as import tariffs , government actions and subsidies . |
| 21 | More recently liquid CO&sub2 ; has been used and found to achieve a better extract with no risk of solvent contamination . |
| 22 | the deployment of all the staff working in the school , both in terms of how their time has been used and their cost ; |
| 23 | Before Christmas I found this machine at a car boot sale in new condition for only £3 , it has never been used and except for two screws missing and instructions , it seems to be in working order . |
| 24 | At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice . |
| 25 | BASS : Because B has already been used and Paul plays it too . |
| 26 | In preparing the financial statements , suitable accounting policies have been used and applied consistently , and reasonable and prudent judgments and estimates have been made . |
| 27 | Syringes are on sale at most dealing locations , though sometimes they have already been used and the package resealed . |
| 28 | Before it was over , knuckle-dusters had been used and two of the combatants were taken to hospital . |
| 29 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
| 30 | It is difficult to strictly demarcate the two approaches since each has been used and interpreted in a variety of ways . |