Example sentences of "[adv] have be used " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 2 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 3 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 4 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 5 | The term " Chetniks " could only have been used very loosely to apply to them all , although in Macmillan 's diary entry on his visit to Klagenfurt he refers to the use of the word " Chetniks " to describe " guerilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and … |
| 6 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 7 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 8 | There was no apparent reason why the road should not have been used as it was free at the time . |
| 9 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 10 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 11 | The ewes and lambs should then be grazed on pasture which , in temperate areas at least , should not have been used by sheep during the previous year . |
| 12 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's awful to think some of these tools may already have been used to commit burglaries . ’ |
| 14 | The text is illustrated with examples drawn mainly from the Roman world , although different examples from other periods and cultures could easily have been used instead . |
| 15 | Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks . |
| 16 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |
| 17 | The five facets identified above have been used as the basis for a standard citation order , that is PMEST . |
| 18 | Yet there was an absence of surface-noise which showed that discs could not possibly have been used . |
| 19 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 20 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 21 | A security officer from a nearby building appeared with a piece of metal which possibly had been used to attack the meter . |
| 22 | After another six weeks , the cane , which never once had been used , was put away permanently . |
| 23 | However , Greeley and Rossi 's work also has been used to uphold the defenders ' argument that , though Roman catholic schools varied in their efficiency , they were certainly better than any possible alternative in terms of producing good Roman catholics . |
| 24 | Note that where voices occur simultaneously strict ordering downwards has been used . |
| 25 | On modern chairs , pva woodworking adhesives will probably have been used , so the soaking or steaming process will take a lot longer ; however , it will work in the end . |
| 26 | RIGHT : One of the most interesting buildings at Beards Mill is this early 19th century wool store , which may also have been used for weaving . |
| 27 | I feel that they may also have been used to help induce altered states of consciousness . |
| 28 | The following day we used proper plaster over the hardened mortar , but cellulose filler could also have been used . |
| 29 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 30 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |