Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been used in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B.
2 This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant .
3 By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states .
4 The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection .
5 Although finite state grammars are weak they have been used in computational systems .
6 A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research .
7 It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored .
8 The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 .
9 Variants of it have been used in many situations .
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