Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been used " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 2 | Many possible measures might be used ( Brown and Yule , 1983 ) , but following Garvey 's lead with younger children ( Garvey , 1979 ) , the distribution and pattern of clarification requests has been used as a starting point . |
| 3 | Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures . |
| 4 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 5 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 6 | By far the most important of these is Bacillus thuringiensis ) ( Bt ) , but B. sphaericus is highly pathogenic to mosquitoes and B. popillae has been used to control scarab beetles , which are serious pasture pests . |
| 7 | In the absence of the Orkney guidelines , she asked to be told which guidelines had been used , and whether these had ever been placed before the Island 's Social Work Committee for their approval . |
| 8 | what methods had been used in the review ; |
| 9 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 10 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 11 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |
| 12 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 13 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 14 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 15 | The criterion for determining whether there was a valid legacy was not therefore whether direct words had been used but whether the right form had been used . |
| 16 | This effect may have been reversed if a larger set of test words had been used . |
| 17 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 18 | Quite apart from unusual stylistic characteristics , cadmium-containing solders had been used extensively . |
| 19 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 20 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 21 | Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse . |
| 22 | it 's the way the words have been used that we 're interpreting wrong . |
| 23 | For simplicity in deriving the analytical results sinusoidal approximations to the characteristics have been used , but nevertheless the general conclusions are valid in most cases . |
| 24 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 25 | These considerations have been used to help explain the prevalence of multi-employer ( association ) bargaining in non-manufacturing industries in the USA such as trucking , construction and retailing which are characterised by a large number of small- and medium-sized firms operating within highly competitive and often localised markets — conditions which favour common settlements . |
| 26 | Generally , for spoken language glottochronology two lists have been used , a 100-word list and a 200-word list ( which includes the 100-word list ) , both developed by Swadesh ( in Samarin , 1967 ) . |
| 27 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 28 | The lakes have been used by both industry and farmers as a dumping ground for a variety of potentially toxic chemicals , including polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) and organochlorine insecticides such as dieldrin and DDT . |
| 29 | Other compounds have been used to fend off micro-organisms , e.g. ‘ fever barks ’ such as quinine from Cinchona officinalis ( Rubiaceae ) angostura bitters from certain South American Rutaceae , and timbers such as sandalwood ( Santalum album , Santalaceae ) and camphor ( Cinnamomum camphora , Lauraceae ) . |
| 30 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |