Example sentences of "it have been used [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1955 it has been used as a museum and now houses many of the best religious paintings , sculptures and vestments from the island 's churches , including several fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish works , said to have been obtained in exchange for sugar shipped from Funchal . |
| 2 | There are educational approaches where it has been used as a method . |
| 3 | Rather , it has been used as a retardant of the progression of AIDS , largely on the basis that it seems to sustain the subpopulation of T cells that appears especially vulnerable to HIV in the overt stage of the disease . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Too often it has been used as a reward for political service . |
| 6 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 7 | It has been used as a prison many times . |
| 8 | Too often it has been used as a weapon of oppression . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 . |
| 10 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 11 | Despite the criticism levelled at the public conscience test it has been used in a number of cases . |
| 12 | When the Hewers bought Vine House it had been used as a dormitory for an air Force course int he village during the war . |
| 13 | well this , no , fifty one , er this was the last house to be completed on this estate because it had been used as a paint store and we were the very last people |
| 14 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 15 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |