Example sentences of "[been] used in the " in BNC.

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1 In Rex 's terms that means the malt and hops are organic and finings have not been used in the production ; not that finings affect the organic status of the brew , but Rex objects on vegetarian grounds .
2 It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation .
3 5 The same broken punch for the letter N has been used in the word TRANSENS on the die for a gold noble of Edward IV ( 1461–83 ) ( opposite ) and in the word LONDON on the die of a half-groat of the same king ( opposite below , and above ) .
4 A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) .
5 They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate .
6 Bismuth has long been used in the treatment of digestive problems and a typical bismuth drug in the British pharmaceutical codes ( BPC ) for 1949 was Pulvis Bismuth Compositus , BP , a mixture of bismuth carbonate , magnesium carbonate and sodium carbonate .
7 When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time .
8 They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him .
9 Carbohydrate restriction had been used in the preinsulin era to try to control hyperglycaemia .
10 National income , or its rate of growth , has most often been used in the West to indicate success .
11 Additional scat samples were obtained from captive mongooses and genets in London Zoo in order to compare the degrees of digestion , but the samples from the captive animals have not been used in the statistical comparisons .
12 Such drugs often have been inappropriately prescribed and also have been used in the overdose ( p. 40 ) .
13 A small quantity , probably over 200 kg , has been used in the manufacture of californium , for medical purposes .
14 Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process .
15 Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food .
16 However , for reasons previously stated these have not been used in the present design .
17 A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am .
18 For over five thousand years , Ginseng has been used in the East as a natural tonic .
19 But they did n't change it because the only one of similar age available to them had been used in the previous match when Waqar took seven for 87 against Gloucestershire .
20 Behind the steel grille and doors , flawless stones have been used in the regalia .
21 These have been used in the treatment of Kaposi 's Sarcoma , but have serious side-effects .
22 Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off .
23 The resources of Powers ' archives , which have been used in the biography , in addition to the author 's extensive photographic record of the art works , and the detailed entries for each work , make these volumes an indispensable tool in American history and art .
24 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 .
25 The power to make orders for the ‘ preservation ’ of property has been used in the context of the transfer of the mortgage of land by a mentally disordered person , even though the land was in Monte Carlo .
26 A financial document that had NOT been used in the compilation of the corpus was selected as test data ( this was the same document as used in the earlier investigations of Chapter Three ) .
27 The senses of polysemous words ( such as ’ charge ’ or ’ rate ’ ) are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs .
28 No part of these test documents had been used in the creation of any collocation dictionary .
29 These documents were all at least 500 words in length and had NOT been used in the compilation of any dictionary .
30 We must take account of the various ways in which the word " style " has been used in the past : but we should be wary of becoming slaves to verbal definition .
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