Example sentences of "[verb] be used by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an amnesty law passed in 1978 , which granted immunity to the perpetrators of human rights violations , has been used by the courts to block full investigations into these cases . |
| 2 | The survey , by John Jenkins of the Law Society 's Research and Policy Planning Unit , has been used by the Law Society to assist the development of the Practice Management Standards for solicitors firms recently published in draft . |
| 3 | In recent years the estate has been used by the Ministry of Agriculture to research into badgers . |
| 4 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 5 | This power has been used by the police in a variety of ways ; to ask demonstrators to leave the scene , even when acting peacefully . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | In cases where the souterrain was too large for storage of one village 's produce , it may have been used by the chief of an area as a sort of tithe barn for goods paid to him as tax . |
| 8 | As for the farm butter , it is being borne away by the purchasers in the great baskets which look as if they might have been used by the Scarlet Pimpernel to smuggle refugee aristos out of Paris . |
| 9 | Det Chief Insp Alan Snelling said they were particularly keen to hear from people in a car park at the rear of the cottage , which could have been used by the murderers . |
| 10 | Police say they 're anxious to trace a car and a van which may have been used by the gang . |
| 11 | They must have been used by the painter of the bull depicted on the flat side of a crystal plaque found at Knossos . |
| 12 | This would have been exempt from income tax under s188 and could have been used by the director to repay his loan . |
| 13 | They 're now trying top trace two vehicles seen nearby which may have been used by the raiders . |
| 14 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 15 | The drawing and new evidence about cars suspected of having been used by the bombers , has prompted police to call 1,500 Deal residents for further interviews later this week with 50 officers at a church hall . |
| 16 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 17 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 18 | The reference guide The Executive Grapevine had been used by the government service organisation and one of the anonymous respondents ; the latter had also responded to mail-shots from headhunters seeking business . |
| 19 | At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns . |
| 20 | This was land that had been used by the army for infantry training but which , for various reasons , the Ministry had decided to give up . |
| 21 | Until 1321 , parliament had been used by the king 's opponents as an occasion when pressure might be brought to bear upon him ; to the king , parliament was an inescapable necessity when taxes had to be raised but otherwise was of little significance . |
| 22 | A couple of dozen bales of fabric had been destroyed , partly by the fire and partly by the water that had been used by the fire brigade to put the fire out . |
| 23 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 24 | They are to be erected on the site of an old Masonic hall which had been used by the congregation as parochial rooms . |
| 25 | The old Michigan law which preceded the 1974 reform placed an extremely heavy burden of proof upon the prosecution , which had to prove beyond reasonable doubt both that force had been used by the defendant and that the victim was unwilling . |
| 26 | In the company 's defence , the NRA said that because of a regional water shortage , less water had been used by the plant , at the request of the local water authority . |
| 27 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 28 | An accolade for Felix Schofield and Mrs Swan — I hear that photographs of posters done by them for Christian Aid have been used by the Church of Scotland 's Publicity Department as illustrations of an effective means of poster-design for communication . |
| 29 | The plants grown as herbs in many countries have been used by the inhabitants because it was , and is , natural to use the materials found in the world around one for food , shelter , health and warmth . |
| 30 | On the one hand , age-restrictive social policies have been used by the state both to exclude older workers from the labour force and to legitimate that exclusion through the notion of ‘ retirement ’ . |