Example sentences of "[verb] be used in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must take account of the various ways in which the word " style " has been used in the past : but we should be wary of becoming slaves to verbal definition . |
| 2 | Asked about increasing pressure to re-introduce internment , Sir Patrick said : ‘ Internment is a power which has been used in the past both north and south of the border . |
| 3 | A small quantity , probably over 200 kg , has been used in the manufacture of californium , for medical purposes . |
| 4 | This approach has been used in the United States and Canada . |
| 5 | A downhole flowmeter for measuring the flow rates and water cut was run in the well , the first time it has been used in the North Sea , although a prototype has been used at Wytch Farm . |
| 6 | 5 The same broken punch for the letter N has been used in the word TRANSENS on the die for a gold noble of Edward IV ( 1461–83 ) ( opposite ) and in the word LONDON on the die of a half-groat of the same king ( opposite below , and above ) . |
| 7 | For over five thousand years , Ginseng has been used in the East as a natural tonic . |
| 8 | In the absence of a joint election by the vendor and Newco under s531(3) TA 1988 , " know-how " which has been used in the trade and which is disposed of is treated as part of goodwill . |
| 9 | The host 's humoral immune response to Helicobacter pylori has been used in the diagnosis of active infection with these organisms . |
| 10 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 11 | The power to make orders for the ‘ preservation ’ of property has been used in the context of the transfer of the mortgage of land by a mentally disordered person , even though the land was in Monte Carlo . |
| 12 | The last words in the manual before the index read ( p 232 ) : ‘ By legal definition , correct first aid practice is that which has been approved by the Voluntary Aid Societies for publication in this book , where this has been used in the training of the First Aider . ’ |
| 13 | As such , it has been used in the study of discourse , by Grimes ( 1975 : 337 ) for example , to describe the different methods used in various languages to mark the ‘ topic constituent ’ of sentences . |
| 14 | The information collected is used in the construction of the retail price index ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 15 | Detectives hunting the killer of a businessman who was shot dead as he walked his dogs today carried out a reconstruction involving the car and a motorbike that they think may have been used in the murder . |
| 16 | The senses of polysemous words ( such as ’ charge ’ or ’ rate ’ ) are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs . |
| 17 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 18 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 19 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 20 | However , it may be possible to get some idea about the information that was likely to have been used in the recognition studies by simply asking people to describe the films . |
| 21 | If do is used in the non-past , the infinitive 's event is situated in the first moment of the non-past time-sphere : ( 2 ) She does own a Porsche . |
| 22 | The anomalous finite do is used in the affirmative for purposes of emphasising the verb element : I do like strawberries ! ; |
| 23 | Many of Dalton 's circles had been used in the past in alchemy or pharmacy with one or more meanings , very different from that of one atom of a chemical element which Dalton meant them to represent . |
| 24 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 25 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 26 | Carbohydrate restriction had been used in the preinsulin era to try to control hyperglycaemia . |
| 27 | The Democratic Party [ see p. 38707 ] claimed that agents provocateurs had been used in the area . |
| 28 | When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time . |
| 29 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 30 | No part of these test documents had been used in the creation of any collocation dictionary . |