Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have been used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room . |
| 2 | A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview . |
| 3 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 4 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 5 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 6 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 7 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 10 | New Zealand was amply supplied with basalt , greywacke and argillite , each of which is known to have been used for the adze blades used to shape the timbers required for canoes , houses and defensive works . |
| 11 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |
| 12 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 13 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 14 | These objects are actually made of brass , but are believed to have been used for the weighing of gold dust ( fig. 9.4 ) . |
| 15 | The stone has now vanished and is believed to have been used for paving the walks of St. James Church in Brackley . |
| 16 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 17 | Although the wood is presumed to have been used for firesetting. the association between mining activity and the sample is rarely certain . |