Example sentences of "[vb past] to have been used [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack .
2 Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba .
3 Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories .
4 He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years .
5 A SWORD said to have been used by poet Lord Byron in the 1823 Greek independence war is likely to fetch £4,000 at a London auction .
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