Example sentences of "[vb base] been use [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arguments have been used to justify the continued operation of branch railway lines and low productivity coal pits , where the costs of closure to the local economy were deemed to be too high , even if the operations themselves were unviable . |
| 2 | The defences that have been used to justify the campaign of law breaking are disgraceful . |
| 3 | The RNA tumour viruses have been studied extensively , and have been used to carry the human adenosine deaminase gene successfully into children with severe combined immunodeficiency . |
| 4 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 5 | These arguments have been used to buttress a wide range of government investments , such as Concorde , nuclear reactors , BL vehicles , microelectronics and computers . |
| 6 | Shades of grey have been used to represent the different land-cover classes . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said the university names have been used to give the letter ‘ spurious credibility ’ . |
| 8 | These funds have been used to finance the work of specialist quasi-public financial institutions in a range of activities from overseas projects to long-term loans for the purchase of specialist equipment . |
| 9 | Fresh from winning the 1993 Good Housekeeping Award , the final proceeds of their 1991 win have been used to purchase a new asset which will help anyone trying to fight the flab or who wants to improve his or her fitness . |
| 10 | Similarly , eye movement studies have been used to demonstrate the role of semantic knowledge in the reading process . |
| 11 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |
| 12 | Darwin 's theories have been used to support the view that homo sapiens is the pre-eminent of species , and have fuelled beliefs in the morality of the survival of the fittest , whilst also lending support to positions , reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer 's , which emphasise universal kinship and the duty to care for the lowly and enfeebled . |
| 13 | Polarised Zeeman correction methods have been used to improve the quantitative measurements from flame instruments giving greater stability and reducing spectral noise . |
| 14 | A semantic network is a graph where natural language terms have been used to label the nodes and links . |
| 15 | Page makeup software such as Ready Set Go , PageMaker , MacPublisher and LetraPage have been used to illustrate the enormous potential of small computer systems to design and create artwork ready for printing . |
| 16 | In more general ways these figures have been used to characterise the liquidity of different periods . |
| 17 | Various criteria have been used to define the ‘ public interest ’ , including the effect on competition , potential efficiency gains , employment implications , the effect on the regions etc . |
| 18 | The growth of collective action by States through international organisations has been achieved primarily through treaties which have been used to define the competence of international organisations , and to perform their functions . |
| 19 | A variety of substances have been used to plug the biopsy tract during needle withdrawal , one of which is ivalon , a polyvinyl foam ( 150–300 µ particle size ) . |
| 20 | Most of the conceptual distinctions which have been used to narrow the scope of such protection have been applied to them . |
| 21 | In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions . |
| 22 | Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions . |
| 23 | In attempting to establish the prevalence of dementia a variety of different instruments have been used to identify the presence/absence of the condition . |
| 24 | Marks have been used to identify the makers of goods for thousands of years . |
| 25 | It is greatly to the credit of the profession that , as viewers , we are not aware of the many techniques which have been used to produce a ‘ natural ’ effect . |
| 26 | In labelling the axes of the characteristics , subscripts c , e and b have been used to denote the collector , emitter and base . |
| 27 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 28 | The marks left behind on the wood have also been studied for comparison with excavated pieces of timber , and similar experiments have been used to investigate the use of bronze and iron axes . |
| 29 | Thus , competitive equilibrium models , with all markets clearing , have been used to investigate the incidence of different taxes , whereas a quite separate literature , using aggregate demand/monetary models , has examined the implications of taxes for the level of employment and the rate of inflation . |
| 30 | Oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing 3-deazaadenine have been used to investigate the interaction of DNA with restriction endonucleases ( 2-5 ) , a modification methylase ( 4 ) , Salmonella Hin recombinase ( 6 ) and to study the bending of DNA in d(A) n tracts ( 7,8 ) . |