Example sentences of "have [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 2 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
| 3 | Administrative means — like the block vote - have been used to solve political problems . |
| 4 | Nuclear batteries have been used in 22 other US missions . |
| 5 | Such chalets have been used in other parts of the country and are also common on the continent . |
| 6 | Through the ages these western seaways have been used as a highway by settlers and saints , pilgrims and pirates and traders and travellers . |
| 7 | When these ‘ stages ’ have been used to identify societies outside Europe the result has often been misleading . |
| 8 | It is these laws which have been used to humiliate tired and defenceless visitors , to deport workers without even a hearing , to lock innocent people in prison and brand them criminals , and to provide employers with a work-force made powerless through legislation . |
| 9 | Concrete hulls , reinforced with glass-fibre rather than steel , have been used in boat building for many years . |
| 10 | Aromatic oils have been used for centuries for their therapeutic and beauty benefits . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 12 | The vehicle provides increased armoured protection from artillery fire and certain anti-tank weapons for the soldiers it carries , and its special air filtration system enables the crew to survive closed-down inside the vehicle when nuclear , chemical and biological weapons have been used . |
| 13 | As well as milling corn , water-powered mills have been used for weaving and spinning . |
| 14 | Troops have been used more than 30 times since the second world war to replace striking workers . |
| 15 | Troops have been used more than 30 times since the second world war to replace striking workers . |
| 16 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 17 | On the wall is the Soil Association certificate showing that no nasty pesticides have been used on the farm for two years . |
| 18 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 19 | Drift-nets were first developed by the Japanese , and have been used since 1905 . |
| 20 | Cells from dogs and cattle have been used so far , but pancreases from any slaughterhouse would probably do . |
| 21 | There will be stricter limits on the state-of-siege powers that have been used by all governments for the past 40 years . |
| 22 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |
| 23 | But when the cross-section is viewed at high magnification , it becomes clear that different plating methods have been used . |
| 24 | Both male and female bodies have been used , and it is striking how art and anatomy combine inextricably in the way they are posed . |
| 25 | But , if units of metal have been used as monetary values and in monetary transactions , what is the difference between a coin and a lump of metal ? |
| 26 | In more general ways these figures have been used to characterise the liquidity of different periods . |
| 27 | The cubeoctahedron , dodecahedron , icosahedron and various other semi and demi-regular solids have been used as models for geodesic domes . |
| 28 | Original plans found in a Bugatti sales brochure have been used to help with the restoration . |
| 29 | Fighting around Kupres , in which Yugoslavian federal fighter jets have been used to attack Croat positions , is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives , although there has been no independent confirmation . |
| 30 | The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system . |