Example sentences of "long [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had evolved from the ancient single red R. gallica and had long been used in medicine . |
| 2 | Bismuth has long been used in the treatment of digestive problems and a typical bismuth drug in the British pharmaceutical codes ( BPC ) for 1949 was Pulvis Bismuth Compositus , BP , a mixture of bismuth carbonate , magnesium carbonate and sodium carbonate . |
| 3 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 4 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 5 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 6 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 7 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 8 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 9 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 10 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 11 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 12 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 13 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 14 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 15 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 16 | ‘ Ganja ’ , the local marijuana , had long been used to allay hunger . |
| 17 | Both wills and inventories have long been used by historians of the late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries . |
| 18 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 19 | It had long been used in the Middle East and , in Europe , was employed in areas subject to Moorish influence like Spain , Sicily and even Provence . |
| 20 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 21 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 22 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 23 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 24 | The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ? |
| 25 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |