Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 2 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 3 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 4 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 5 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 6 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 7 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 8 | If by any chance the cassette has already been used for recording on another machine ( for example , on a VHS mains VCR ) , remember to check that the cassette 's safety-tab is still in place , otherwise , you may be baffled by your camcorder 's refusal to do any recording ! |
| 9 | Nato has also been used for the neck and fingerboard and while the overall appearance of the SW213 wo n't compete with more expensive instruments it 's quite good enough for a 100 quid guitar . |
| 10 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 11 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 12 | I know a way out of Parfois that has n't been used for years , but it 's still open if you know where to find it . |
| 13 | It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution . |
| 14 | This insert was cloned as a dimer within the Sma I site of the pUC19 polylinker and has previously been used for studying the effect of actinomycin on the structure of the surrounding blocks of A n . |
| 15 | This is when free will has again been used for egotistical desires , your need for power , riches , or a soft ride . |
| 16 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 17 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 18 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 19 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
| 20 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 21 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 22 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 25 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 26 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 27 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 28 | Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1 , when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint . |
| 29 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 30 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |