Example sentences of "have been used [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid . |
| 2 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 3 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 4 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 5 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 6 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |