Example sentences of "have been used [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |
2 | In this example , the programme has been used to predict the behaviour of dissolved silica with time and space during the flow of calcium hydroxide through a sandstone in a laboratory experiment . |
3 | Here synthesis has been used to clarify the structure of this material and thence show the biosynthetic relationship of haem d 1 to other families of the ‘ pigments of life ’ . |
4 | In one case , involving a GA mismatch , this technique , combined with a molecular dynamics simulation ( 9 ) , has been used to justify the presence of a B II conformation at the level of the mismatch , a conclusion also supported by crystallographic studies ( 10 ) . |
5 | As the ballot box rather than the market place has been used to decide the allocation of resources , so the power of the individual has diminished and the power of the corporate state — which effects some form of social contract between corporations , trade unions and government — increased . |
6 | Imagery of the Lake District has been used to analyse the lineament pattern of the region . |
7 | Analysis of the morphology of the resulting cell clusters [ assisted by 4 , 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole ( DAPI ) staining of nuclei , Section 3.6.2 ] has been used to assess the influence of cell interactions on cell fate during development ( 26 ) . |
8 | The ratio technique has been used to assess the vigour of growing vegetation not only using Landsat data for small area inventories but also on a global basis using low-resolution data from the NOAA meteorological satellites . |
9 | This paper describes a technique that allows metabolism of nutrients to be assessed in whole epithelial biopsy specimens , and this technique has been used to assess the metabolism of butyrate and glutamine by ileal and colonic biopsy specimens from patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis and controls . |
10 | The wooden pallet bed is n't needed for rest , and like the rest of the room has been used to mount a display for one of Bremer 's collections . |
11 | Next the reflection tool has been used to turn the copy into a mirror image . |
12 | The AWK programming language has been used to implement a variation of the collocation technique described above . |
13 | Measurement has been used to examine the nature of variation between pairs of saucer brooches , particularly the ornament variation ( Dickinson 1982 ) ; the study was based on 52 pairs of cast saucer brooches , but a number of problems were encountered with what might have seemed a straightforward piece of research ( ibid. 22–3 ) . |
14 | The degree of agreement with experimental analysis has been used to argue the reliability of the Pople programs used . |
15 | This has been used to define the interviewer 's tasks and what problems arise . |
16 | The money has been used to establish the Head Start Capital Fund , which will provide loans of up to £30,000 for individual projects at competitive rates . |
17 | The difference in proportions , d , has been used to summarize the effect of being in a category of one variable upon the chances of being in a category of another . |
18 | Other surgery has been used to construct an ankle . |
19 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
20 | That money has been used to increase the number of lay staff , practice nurses and other professionals available in general practice and to improve the physical facilities in which general practice is offered . |
21 | Bidirectional transcription footprinting has been used to probe the platination of DNA by cisplatin , and to examine the modulation of these interactions by ( a ) cyclisation of the non-reactive amino group by either ethyl or propyl groups , and ( b ) the further addition of a pendant intercalator ( 9-amino acridine ) linked by either phenylethyl or phenylpentyl groups . |
22 | Another name for an eruption is a ‘ burst ’ ( but this is sometimes used to mean the process generating an eruption rather than the eruption itself ; conversely , it has been used to mean a sequence of an eruption plus an inrush ) . |
23 | Aprotinin has been used to reduce the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis following hip surgery . |
24 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
25 | Firstly , overstatement has been used to make the point . |
26 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
27 | The carefully planned cross-country course , which takes advantage of many excellent natural features , has been used to host the World Student Cross-Country Championships as well as other local competitions . |
28 | The neck is made from birdseye maple , which is satin finished along its playing length , but as the reverse side of the headstock has been signed and numbered by Larry himself , a layer of clear lacquer has been used to protect the area . |
29 | The method has been used to study the frequency and temperature dependence of viscoelastic moduli for many years . |
30 | The method that has been used to store the bigram and trigram matrices relies on the fact that if no value for a trigram transition is available then the system backs off to the bigram value . |