Example sentences of "already been used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 2 | This market has already been used at the beginning of the chapter to introduce the concept and purpose of ‘ the money market ’ . |
| 3 | If by any chance the cassette has already been used for recording on another machine ( for example , on a VHS mains VCR ) , remember to check that the cassette 's safety-tab is still in place , otherwise , you may be baffled by your camcorder 's refusal to do any recording ! |
| 4 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 5 | The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer . |
| 6 | Previously analysed texts have already been used as a source of statistical information to enable parts of speech to be identified in a text on the basis of the likelihood of particular sequences ( for example , the word after the is nearly always a noun ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 8 | If the latter were the case , we would expect no accommodation to take place for a specific variable until that variable had already been used by the interlocutor . |
| 9 | But the stroke as accentual sign had already been used by older composers , among them Bach , Handel and Telemann . |
| 10 | The items sold to the Buyer under this contract of sale are second-hand , having already been used by the Seller in the Seller 's business . |
| 11 | The helpline has already been used by a number of worried officers . |
| 12 | Neither he nor manager John Lambie attended the sessions , but the players certainly appeared to have benefited from the wisdom that has already been used by Rangers and Liz McColgan , among others . |
| 13 | There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday . |
| 14 | The second part is a review of examples of how the technology has already been used in education . |
| 15 | The condemned techniques had already been used in experimental interrogations in the month or two prior to the UUAC general strike and had demonstrated how effective they were in inducing confessions . |
| 16 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 17 | Some of them have already been used in this book . |