Example sentences of "[vb base] been used [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 2 | It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale . |
| 3 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |
| 4 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 5 | Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women 's ineligibility for social security benefits . |
| 6 | The ergot alkaloids given therapeutically in migraine have been used as a diagnostic test for coronary artery vasospasm , with a diffuse reduction in arterial diameter of about 30% evident in normal arteries . |
| 7 | Hedges have been used as a positive design element : yew to provide shelter and screening at the front of the property ; box , fashioned into sweeping curves at a lower level . |
| 8 | In the past , Quality Circles have been used in a similar way but their scope was limited in comparison . |