Example sentences of "[adv] be used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this . |
| 2 | The Corporation of the City of London had long maintained a non-denominational burial ground , though it had predominantly been used by Dissenters . |
| 3 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 4 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 5 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 6 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 7 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 8 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 9 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 10 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 11 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 12 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 13 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 14 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 15 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 16 | Furthermore such systems have not yet been designed to flood such a warehouse at the speed with which the fire will develop vertically and so far have only been used in conjunction with a sprinkler system at ceiling level . |
| 17 | Until recently , the cancer drug paclitaxel , from Pacific yew trees ( faxus brevifolia ) , has only been used in patients whose cancers are well developed . |
| 18 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 19 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 20 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 21 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 22 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 23 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 24 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 25 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 26 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 27 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 28 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 29 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 30 | This had evolved from the ancient single red R. gallica and had long been used in medicine . |