Example sentences of "[verb] be used [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When one has been used to the nearest neighbours being several fields away , it would n't do to have someone else 's door or window overlooking every part of the house .
2 It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far .
3 which again has been used for a long time on animals .
4 Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering .
5 Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway .
6 At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities .
7 That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt .
8 Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason .
9 This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems .
10 NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad .
11 In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality .
12 In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate .
13 The phrase ‘ community care ’ has been used since the 1960s , but it has never been too narrowly defined and a variety of activities can be numbered as belonging to a community approach to the care of the mentally disordered .
14 Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool .
15 In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway .
16 Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) .
17 One of these is run in a large old house in its own grounds in North London which has been used as a private Mother and Baby Home since the late 1920s .
18 Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century .
19 The amount of luck that would be required for this feat is unthinkable , and has been used as a telling mind-boggler by Isaac Asimov and others .
20 Although the GTP has been used as a late and well-documented model , the same developments could be found wherever the ‘ colonizing roads ’ went in North America .
21 It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others .
22 Arsenal Football Club 's famous emblem , the Cannon , has been used as a focal point in a specially designed carpet for 53 executive boxes , a restaurant , the sponsor 's lounge and corridors in Arsenal 's newly built stand .
23 In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology .
24 Modernity for these writers has been used as an all-embracing concept that includes both the ideologies of the modern world — its ‘ modernisms ’ — and also the economic , social and cultural realities of modern life .
25 In others the palette knife has been used along the top edge to establish a horizontal band with a raised edge that casts a shadow and produces a distinct demarcation two inches from the top .
26 The embedded figures test , which highlights these factors , has been used in a wide range of cross-cultural situations to support research work , and broadly differentiates types of perception arising within different cultures .
27 This enables water that has been used in the final rinse for previous dishes to be boosted on the next batch to clear off detergents .
28 This principle has been used in an ingenious way in hydrogels .
29 A different approach to estimating the distributive effects of public expenditure has been used by the Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) .
30 Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE .
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