Example sentences of "been used [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the mid-seventies the expression euro-communism has been used to describe the Communist Parties of Italy , France and Spain . |
| 2 | The ISP notation has been used to describe the appropriate parts of the DEC PDP- Il computer ( DEC 1972b ) . |
| 3 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 4 | The RNA tumour viruses have been studied extensively , and have been used to carry the human adenosine deaminase gene successfully into children with severe combined immunodeficiency . |
| 5 | The rest of the money seems to have been used to finance a double life . |
| 6 | The new pill has already been used to regulate the daily rhythms of blind people who can not respond to the light and dark cues of day and night . |
| 7 | Figure 4.9(b) uses the same data as Figure 4.9(a) but elective 8 has been used to eliminate the blank lines around the country boundaries . |
| 8 | Water from the Andean El Teniente , the world 's largest underground copper mine , has been used to transform the dry Caren Valley in central Chile into a series of orchards and vegetable plots . |
| 9 | Polarised Zeeman correction methods have been used to improve the quantitative measurements from flame instruments giving greater stability and reducing spectral noise . |
| 10 | Fresh from winning the 1993 Good Housekeeping Award , the final proceeds of their 1991 win have been used to purchase a new asset which will help anyone trying to fight the flab or who wants to improve his or her fitness . |
| 11 | In certain societies , spatial planning has been used to represent a sacred order which is of an ideal form , and within which actual human society attempts to exemplify certain principles , often creating tightly controlled urban populations ordered according to spatial dimensions such as left and right hands , verticality and circumambulation ( e.g. Geertz 1980 ; Wheatley 1971 ) . |
| 12 | British education systems as much as most have traditionally been used to inculcate a single concept of mainstream culture and to allocate young people to the occupational market on the basis of their receptivity to that culture and willingness to mirror values , language and behaviour ( Lynch 1981 ) . |
| 13 | These cartoons have frequently been used to illustrate the social history of that period . |
| 14 | Page makeup software such as Ready Set Go , PageMaker , MacPublisher and LetraPage have been used to illustrate the enormous potential of small computer systems to design and create artwork ready for printing . |
| 15 | These arguments have been used to buttress a wide range of government investments , such as Concorde , nuclear reactors , BL vehicles , microelectronics and computers . |
| 16 | Explain and critically discuss cumulative average residual methodology and explain how it has been used to test a whole range of market phenomena from semi-strong efficiency theory to the efficacy of stockbrokers ' tips . |
| 17 | These arguments have been used to justify the continued operation of branch railway lines and low productivity coal pits , where the costs of closure to the local economy were deemed to be too high , even if the operations themselves were unviable . |
| 18 | Formal secondary legislation has been used to create a Monetary Committee ( which was again envisaged in the original treaty ) , the Committee of Governors of Central Banks which has already been mentioned , and the European Monetary Cooperation Fund . |
| 19 | Although some biologists had become aware that Nature was not a system designed to progress inevitably towards higher levels of development , others retained the kind of progressionism that had been used to make the general idea of evolution palatable in the wake of Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 20 | He describes how a large body of data concerning planetary motion has been used to make an overall test . |
| 21 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 22 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 23 | These have no consistent relationships with the posterior tentorial pits and the term " gular suture " is confusing since , like the " epicranial suture " , it has been used to denote a strengthening sulcus or a weak ecdysial line . |
| 24 | All of these design developments have been used to gain a commercial advantage by offering that ‘ extra something ’ to be different in a very competitive field . |
| 25 | Probabilistic models have commonly been used to investigate the semantic associations between words . |
| 26 | According to Swedenborg every soul is destined for eternal happiness in heaven unless individual freedom in life has been used to pursue the wrong types of love — love of the material world and love of the self instead of love of the neighbour and love of performing what he termed ‘ uses ’ ( useful acts ) . |
| 27 | In textbooks on criminology it has often been used to distinguish the specific school of thought of the original founding fathers of criminology : Lombroso , Garofalo and Ferri . |
| 28 | HOTPOT has been used to model the thermal history of two basins in the Far East ; the model has been related to the generation of hydrocarbons . |
| 29 | The geothermal modelling package has been used to model the thermal history of two basins in the Far East . |
| 30 | By the ox cart that had been used to haul the dead buffalo in from the plain , she paused to watch the men working on its hide . |