Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be use [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique has been used to examine natural trace-metal variations in surface waters and shallow groundwaters in Northern Ireland : for example , high concentrations of aluminium and beryllium are found in waters associated with the Mourne granites . |
| 2 | In addition to identification , the technique has been used to elucidate certain aspects of polymer microstructure , such as branching , crystallinity , tacticity , and cis-trans isomerism . |
| 3 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 4 | Hypnosis has been used to introduce new suggestions to people that will change established programmes . |
| 5 | The resulting cavity below the central ground floor corridor has been used to house horizontal drain-runs and other services . |
| 6 | It became clear that most investment and credits in the urban sector had been used to finance further mechanisation and capitalisation , creating limits to labour absorption of industrial sectors . |
| 7 | With a central lawn and borders around the edge , this garden would have lacked character , but internal hedges and a patio overhead had been used to create distinct areas that can be explored like the rooms of a house , each with a new mood and style . |
| 8 | The Census Dissemination Unit has been allocated a certain amount of minidisk space on the Amdahl at Manchester to hold it ; this consists of 5 minidisks each with a capacity of 1.2 gigabytes ; two contain system files , together with the postcode/Enumeration District directory and some text files with other information , and the rest have been used to store raw data files . |
| 9 | PSA Projects have transferred copies of RBGE plans on microfiche to Estates , and the new microfilm equipment installed in the Library has been used to make hard copy when required . |
| 10 | As well as the Lewisian orthogneisses described above , several outcrops of metamorphic rocks occur which were undoubtedly derived from sedimentary rocks , and the old term paragneiss has been used to describe these , although this has now been superseded by the simpler term metasediments . |
| 11 | In the past a deficit approach has been used to construct developmental theories where the missing parts in the subgroup 's culture can be added . |
| 12 | Since the term was first used funboard has been used to describe any board with a foot strap on it . |
| 13 | A second problem is the way ethnic credentialism has been used to canonize certain texts , or underwrite certain schools of thought as possessing the authentic or correct perspective on racism . |
| 14 | Turning to movements within the income distribution , mean-variance analysis has been used to illustrate that progressive income taxation will tend to lower the amount of risk-taking it is optimal for a utility-maximizing individual to undertake . |
| 15 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 16 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 17 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |