Example sentences of "[verb] have [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil disobedience to obtain what the voters want has been used most effectively in poll tax demonstrations and non-payment campaigns . |
| 2 | If such techniques appear to have been used , the structure should be regarded as suspect , because all reputable Victorian engineers were aware of the risks of making connections by these methods . |
| 3 | It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room . |
| 4 | A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview . |
| 5 | The amount of deformation these dykes have suffered has been used to unravel the main structural differences between the Scourie and Laxfordian events . |
| 6 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 7 | Blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke up the massive blaze , was also found at the secluded site at Coppull near Chorley . |
| 8 | Blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke up the massive blaze , was also found at the secluded site in Coppull , near Chorley . |
| 9 | The weapons were found buried in deep undergrowth near the murder scene along with a petrol can and blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke the massive blaze where Mr Pettitt 's body was burned . |
| 10 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 11 | Other ground-floor rooms include a cosy library and accommodation believed to have been used originally by the servants , including a butler 's pantry . |
| 12 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 13 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 14 | I opened a national investment account at the P.O. yesterday with £35 , so your money as promised has been used wisely ! |
| 15 | NAG has been used extensively to identify and monitor potentially nephrotoxic drugs , its excretion increases in a dose dependent manner following the ingestion of aspirin and sodium salicylate and high concentrations are found in patients with established analgesic nephropathy . |
| 16 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 17 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 18 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 19 | Star of the sale was undoubtedly the Venetian late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century rock crystal and silver gilt casket ( lot 15 ) , one of only ten of this type known and thought to have been used to contain christening linen blessed by the Pope . |
| 20 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 21 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 22 | A duplicate key is thought to have been used to enter a bungalow in Daytona Drive , Northop Hall , where property worth almost £4,000 was stolen . |
| 23 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 24 | Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast . |
| 25 | These salt ways certainly seem to have been used to transport salt from Droitwich in late-Saxon times and even later , but there can be little doubt that they were in existence long before then . |
| 26 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 28 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |
| 29 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 30 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |