Example sentences of "been used [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 5 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 6 | Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women 's ineligibility for social security benefits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 15 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 16 | The name ‘ flag ’ may originate from the plant having first been used as a heraldic device by Clovis , king of the Franks in the 5th century . |
| 17 | At Cultoon there is a deep narrow dale in which there is a den that probably had been used as a human habitation . |
| 18 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |
| 25 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 26 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 27 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 30 | 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 . |