Example sentences of "[vb base] been use [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences that have been used to justify the campaign of law breaking are disgraceful . |
| 2 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 3 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said the university names have been used to give the letter ‘ spurious credibility ’ . |
| 4 | These funds have been used to finance the work of specialist quasi-public financial institutions in a range of activities from overseas projects to long-term loans for the purchase of specialist equipment . |
| 5 | Similarly , eye movement studies have been used to demonstrate the role of semantic knowledge in the reading process . |
| 6 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |
| 7 | Darwin 's theories have been used to support the view that homo sapiens is the pre-eminent of species , and have fuelled beliefs in the morality of the survival of the fittest , whilst also lending support to positions , reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer 's , which emphasise universal kinship and the duty to care for the lowly and enfeebled . |
| 8 | A semantic network is a graph where natural language terms have been used to label the nodes and links . |
| 9 | In more general ways these figures have been used to characterise the liquidity of different periods . |
| 10 | The growth of collective action by States through international organisations has been achieved primarily through treaties which have been used to define the competence of international organisations , and to perform their functions . |
| 11 | A variety of substances have been used to plug the biopsy tract during needle withdrawal , one of which is ivalon , a polyvinyl foam ( 150–300 µ particle size ) . |
| 12 | Most of the conceptual distinctions which have been used to narrow the scope of such protection have been applied to them . |
| 13 | In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions . |
| 14 | Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions . |
| 15 | In attempting to establish the prevalence of dementia a variety of different instruments have been used to identify the presence/absence of the condition . |
| 16 | Marks have been used to identify the makers of goods for thousands of years . |
| 17 | In labelling the axes of the characteristics , subscripts c , e and b have been used to denote the collector , emitter and base . |
| 18 | Oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing 3-deazaadenine have been used to investigate the interaction of DNA with restriction endonucleases ( 2-5 ) , a modification methylase ( 4 ) , Salmonella Hin recombinase ( 6 ) and to study the bending of DNA in d(A) n tracts ( 7,8 ) . |
| 19 | Thus , competitive equilibrium models , with all markets clearing , have been used to investigate the incidence of different taxes , whereas a quite separate literature , using aggregate demand/monetary models , has examined the implications of taxes for the level of employment and the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | The marks left behind on the wood have also been studied for comparison with excavated pieces of timber , and similar experiments have been used to investigate the use of bronze and iron axes . |
| 21 | Realist approaches ( see Sayer , 1984 ) have been used to provide an alternative to positivism on the one hand and historicism on the other . |
| 22 | Such ‘ staircase ’ signatures are common in cusp ion precipitation and have been used to calculate the reconnection rate as a function of time . |
| 23 | Alternatively , many animal models have been used to overcome the lack of availability of normal human tissue . |
| 24 | These various methodologies which have been used to study the issue of informal care are important for they help to reconcile some of the more important differences between surveys . |
| 25 | Within the last decade , analogous methods have been used to study the role of the gastro-intestinal tract in satiation . |
| 26 | SUMMARY : Vitrinite reflectance data for the Carboniferous in 68 Southern North Sea Basin wells have been used to determine a maturity-depth relationship for the basin and to provide an estimate of basement inversion . |
| 27 | Chimeras derived from embryonal stem cells chimeras have been used to determine the cell autonomy of an early developmental mutation , Brachury ( T ) . |
| 28 | Most self-consciously of all , stations have been used to glorify the regime , either through the prominence accorded to photographs of leaders like Mao or Lenin in the central stations of Peking and Leningrad or the installation of national and party banners and symbols as in the stations of Nazi Germany . |