Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] use [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |
| 2 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 3 | In certain societies , spatial planning has been used to represent a sacred order which is of an ideal form , and within which actual human society attempts to exemplify certain principles , often creating tightly controlled urban populations ordered according to spatial dimensions such as left and right hands , verticality and circumambulation ( e.g. Geertz 1980 ; Wheatley 1971 ) . |
| 4 | The wooden pallet bed is n't needed for rest , and like the rest of the room has been used to mount a display for one of Bremer 's collections . |
| 5 | The AWK programming language has been used to implement a variation of the collocation technique described above . |
| 6 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 7 | Formal secondary legislation has been used to create a Monetary Committee ( which was again envisaged in the original treaty ) , the Committee of Governors of Central Banks which has already been mentioned , and the European Monetary Cooperation Fund . |
| 8 | Explain and critically discuss cumulative average residual methodology and explain how it has been used to test a whole range of market phenomena from semi-strong efficiency theory to the efficacy of stockbrokers ' tips . |
| 9 | These have no consistent relationships with the posterior tentorial pits and the term " gular suture " is confusing since , like the " epicranial suture " , it has been used to denote a strengthening sulcus or a weak ecdysial line . |
| 10 | Clynol 's Styling Spray has been used to achieve a strong , even shape on this style . |
| 11 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
| 12 | Another name for an eruption is a ‘ burst ’ ( but this is sometimes used to mean the process generating an eruption rather than the eruption itself ; conversely , it has been used to mean a sequence of an eruption plus an inrush ) . |
| 13 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 14 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 15 | A natural material that has this type of structure is coral , which has been used to produce a range of implant ceramics . |
| 16 | An estate agent must then show that ‘ all due diligence ’ has been used to avoid a false or misleading impression being given about a property . |
| 17 | Lawyers and sections of the media have been concerned that the plastic sheet prevents electronic document analysis ( Esda ) , which has been used to correct a number of miscarriages of justice — including wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six , Guildford Four and Tottenham Three . |