Example sentences of "[vb past] been used in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That element had been a twentieth-century discovery and , within a few years of its first refinement , had been used in new and more powerful weapons of destruction . |
| 2 | Post-mortem tissue was made available to us from talapoin monkeys ( Cercopithecus talapoin ) that had been used in unrelated endocrinological studies . |
| 3 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 4 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 5 | There was a hint that the threat of revocation had been used in this and other communications with difficult councils . |
| 6 | RICO was originally intended for use against organized crime [ see p. 35503 ] , but had been used in 1988 in a number of financial malpractice cases including that of Drexel Burnham Lambert [ see below ] . |
| 7 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |