Example sentences of "have been used [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 2 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 3 | Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering . |
| 4 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 5 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 6 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 7 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 8 | One of these is run in a large old house in its own grounds in North London which has been used as a private Mother and Baby Home since the late 1920s . |
| 9 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The amount of luck that would be required for this feat is unthinkable , and has been used as a telling mind-boggler by Isaac Asimov and others . |
| 11 | Although the GTP has been used as a late and well-documented model , the same developments could be found wherever the ‘ colonizing roads ’ went in North America . |
| 12 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 13 | Arsenal Football Club 's famous emblem , the Cannon , has been used as a focal point in a specially designed carpet for 53 executive boxes , a restaurant , the sponsor 's lounge and corridors in Arsenal 's newly built stand . |
| 14 | Modernity for these writers has been used as an all-embracing concept that includes both the ideologies of the modern world — its ‘ modernisms ’ — and also the economic , social and cultural realities of modern life . |
| 15 | The embedded figures test , which highlights these factors , has been used in a wide range of cross-cultural situations to support research work , and broadly differentiates types of perception arising within different cultures . |
| 16 | This principle has been used in an ingenious way in hydrogels . |
| 17 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 18 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 20 | The eight-kilometre Somport tunnel , which was to have received funds from the EC , would have cut driving times between France and Spain by two hours and would have been used by an estimated 1,000 trucks a day . |
| 21 | The swords may have been ceremonial , or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance . |
| 22 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |
| 23 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 24 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 25 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |
| 26 | At Cultoon there is a deep narrow dale in which there is a den that probably had been used as a human habitation . |
| 27 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 28 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |