Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 2 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 3 | Since 1988 the Doppler technique has been used in diagnosing vascular malformations . |
| 4 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 5 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 6 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lustre powder has been used to great effect here , giving a lovely ephemeral glimmer to the castle . |
| 9 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 10 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The yacht has been used as a model upon which all the Northshore Yacht Yards ' Vancouver 28s are based , but they do differ slightly from the original yacht . |
| 13 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 14 | This provided ‘ a check from the buyers mortgagees point of view , that the money has been used for the purchase ’ . |
| 15 | None of that money has been used on the HMI reports — not a penny piece . |
| 16 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 17 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |
| 18 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 20 | The transhepatic puncture of the gall bladder has been used for cholecystography and cholangiography , for aspiration of bile or pus for culture in suspected cases of acute cholecystitis or empyema , and for biopsy of lesions within the gall bladder . |
| 21 | Gilroy points out that rising street crime has been used as a justification for increased police militarisation , and blames this rise on the deviant activities of a minority of black youth . |
| 22 | Birth weight has been used as a measure of fetal growth but it is strongly dependent on gestational age . |
| 23 | More recently , this dock has been used for the importation of Fiat cars ( it used to be used for the export of British cars ) . |
| 24 | A particular place in the fence has been used as a route to cross the railway . |
| 25 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 26 | Various ways in which the term has been used by philosophers … |
| 27 | The term has been used in diverse ways . |
| 28 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 29 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
| 30 | ( Note that in chord 1 a tritone has been used as a consonance . |