Example sentences of "[verb] [been] use to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 2 | One place where Westmorland slate has been used to great advantage is in the new Coventry Cathedral , but it can also be seen in vernacular building , particularly at Elterwater ( q.v. ) and Troutbeck . |
| 3 | Give me a links course in Scotland or Lancashire , or one of the beautiful Surrey courses any day , where the natural terrain has been used to its best advantage ; such courses have the great benefit of maturity . |
| 4 | Here , an unusual combination of ash and cherrywood has been used to superb effect . |
| 5 | When one has been used to the nearest neighbours being several fields away , it would n't do to have someone else 's door or window overlooking every part of the house . |
| 6 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 7 | I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy . |
| 8 | Lustre powder has been used to great effect here , giving a lovely ephemeral glimmer to the castle . |
| 9 | There has been a trend in recent years for manufacturers to shorten their channels in order to control more effectively the distribution of their products , particularly where expensive advertising has been used to pre-sell the goods to the consumer . |
| 10 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 11 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 12 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 13 | He 'd been used to having chars and minions running round him . |
| 14 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 15 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 16 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 17 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 18 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 19 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 20 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 21 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 22 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 23 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 24 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 25 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 26 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 27 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 28 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 30 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |