Example sentences of "[verb] be use by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 2 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 3 | ‘ Femaleness ’ has been used by radical feminists as a justification for more co-operative , less competitive forms of learning , as if these were inherent in all female cultures . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The database has been used by one group of learning support pupils who have used the printouts not only to find the books they want but also to organize their projects , using the questions as section headings . |
| 6 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 7 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The main reason that Marslen-Wilson and Tyler give for rejecting the idea that context can operate before any sensory information is received is one which has been used by many other theorists , including Fodor ( 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Spines — This expression has been used by various writers with considerable latitude but is here confined to outgrowths of the cuticle which are more or less thorn-like in form . |
| 11 | Local government has seen the growth of intra-as well as inter-party politics , and has been used by both major parties to promote ‘ radical ’ policies . |
| 12 | So ‘ bureaucratic ’ pluralism has been used by some in recognizing the more important role of Japanese civil servants ; this has been further qualified as ‘ bureaucratic-inclusionary ’ pluralism to suggest that the widest possible range of citizen consultation is used to assess the national interest . |
| 13 | The change in refractive index of the polymer with temperature has been used by several workers to establish T g . |
| 14 | Also , the associations that will be discussed , and the interpretations of them in postclassical terms that will be offered , should not be seen as suggesting the operation of ‘ causes ’ or ‘ determinants ’ , even where such language has been used by those involved in establishing the associations . |
| 15 | The term ’ perceptron ’ has been used by different people to mean different things , but its definition seems to have stabilised by now . |
| 16 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 17 | ‘ I just do n't like being used by rich politicians , ’ Ellen said angrily , though I silently noted she had no objections to taking their money . |
| 18 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 19 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |
| 20 | Cannabis was the most popular secondary drug , having been used by 38 per cent of known opioid users , followed by psychedelics ( 15 per cent ) and stimulants ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 21 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 22 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |
| 23 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 24 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 25 | They are simply told to imagine that the adjectives had been used by 6 different people to describe another person , and to use these traits to form an impression of that imaginary person . |
| 26 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 27 | It was a male preserve , consecrated to sport , where guns were cleaned after a day 's shooting and guests would be shown valuable old museum pieces that had been used by earlier Arbuthnots . |
| 28 | In a major speech on the opening day UN chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali rejected the cloak of ‘ non-interference ’ that he said was used by authoritarian regimes to conceal rights violations . |
| 29 | Since local councils borrowed to finance virtually all their capital expenditure , permission to borrow was used by central departments to set the total capital spending limits for local authorities , determine national service priorities for capital spending , and set common design standards and cost yardsticks which ensured a tight degree of economy in capital projects . |
| 30 | 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 . |