Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been used " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | what methods had been used in the review ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 7 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This effect may have been reversed if a larger set of test words had been used . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Quite apart from unusual stylistic characteristics , cadmium-containing solders had been used extensively . |
| 13 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse . |
| 16 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 17 | But Mike Bennett , director of community services for the council said it was not clear whether one of the missing keys had been used . |
| 18 | But Mike Bennett , director of community services for the council said it was not clear whether one of the missing keys had been used . |
| 19 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 20 | The crimps had been used to hold in position the three small swivels that connect to the hook lengths . |
| 21 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 22 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 23 | These libraries had been used as a means to circumvent a restrictive loan policy applied in the main library , which clearly lacked support from the scientific or library staff within the departments . |
| 24 | Airlines had been used to link parts of empires together , regardless of economic cost , and the principle of the state and state airlines working together was well established . |
| 25 | Relations with Australia were also damaged in June by an admission from the PNG military that helicopters provided by the Australian government for transport and surveillance purposes had been used in February 1990 to dump the bodies of executed BRA rebels into the sea . |
| 26 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 27 | Before it was over , knuckle-dusters had been used and two of the combatants were taken to hospital . |
| 28 | How his powers had been used by slave traders , who had murdered the rest of his family , and then by the T'Ka drug cartel . |
| 29 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 30 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |