Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this . |
| 2 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 3 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 4 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 5 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 6 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 7 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 8 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 9 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 10 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 13 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 14 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 15 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 16 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 17 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 18 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 19 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 20 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 21 | Until recently , the cancer drug paclitaxel , from Pacific yew trees ( faxus brevifolia ) , has only been used in patients whose cancers are well developed . |
| 22 | As Stoker argues above , contracting out has largely been used as a threat to achieve other forms of change , often by senior bureaucrats to gain concessions from and changes in work practices by staff at lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 23 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 24 | If by any chance the cassette has already been used for recording on another machine ( for example , on a VHS mains VCR ) , remember to check that the cassette 's safety-tab is still in place , otherwise , you may be baffled by your camcorder 's refusal to do any recording ! |
| 25 | The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer . |
| 26 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 27 | This market has already been used at the beginning of the chapter to introduce the concept and purpose of ‘ the money market ’ . |
| 28 | The second part is a review of examples of how the technology has already been used in education . |
| 29 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 30 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |