Example sentences of "have be use [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mouse ICM is much more susceptible to lethal damage by X-irradiation or anti-metabolites than TE and treatment of embryos ( starting from the 2- to 8- cell stage ) with a variety of these reagents has been used to generate trophectodermal vesicles devoid of any apparent ICM ( discussed in ref. 28 ) .
2 By investigating the ways in which it has been used to explain particular phenomena , I shall aim to provide a more detailed account of absolute holism , as I shall call it , and of the mode of explanation it embodies .
3 Feminists and other progressives have always been uncomfortable with the whole notion of morality , viewing it as an essentially conservative concept that has been used to bolster traditional modes of thinking and undermine efforts for change .
4 This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance .
5 Contributing to the rouble 's decline is the Russian central bank 's predilection for printing money , a big pile of which has been used to finance other CIS republics ' trade deficits with Russia .
6 Since the term was first used funboard has been used to describe any board with a foot strap on it .
7 As well as the Lewisian orthogneisses described above , several outcrops of metamorphic rocks occur which were undoubtedly derived from sedimentary rocks , and the old term paragneiss has been used to describe these , although this has now been superseded by the simpler term metasediments .
8 The language of ‘ conditioning ’ , ‘ brainwashing ’ , ‘ indoctrination ’ , and so forth , has been used to describe this force .
9 Like BR , RENFE has been used to serve macroeconomic objectives , affecting the achievement of its own immediate goals in a manner not amenable to simple quantification .
10 The technique has been used to examine natural trace-metal variations in surface waters and shallow groundwaters in Northern Ireland : for example , high concentrations of aluminium and beryllium are found in waters associated with the Mourne granites .
11 It is rather suspicious that the label ‘ illogical ’ has been used to disparage other subordinate groups ' language as well as women 's .
12 Turning to movements within the income distribution , mean-variance analysis has been used to illustrate that progressive income taxation will tend to lower the amount of risk-taking it is optimal for a utility-maximizing individual to undertake .
13 Impartiality is a concept which has been used to convey many things .
14 The resulting cavity below the central ground floor corridor has been used to house horizontal drain-runs and other services .
15 Hypnosis has been used to introduce new suggestions to people that will change established programmes .
16 Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures .
17 In the past a deficit approach has been used to construct developmental theories where the missing parts in the subgroup 's culture can be added .
18 One class of experiment which has been used to investigate this issue involves what is known as a lexical decision task .
19 A second problem is the way ethnic credentialism has been used to canonize certain texts , or underwrite certain schools of thought as possessing the authentic or correct perspective on racism .
20 In addition to identification , the technique has been used to elucidate certain aspects of polymer microstructure , such as branching , crystallinity , tacticity , and cis-trans isomerism .
21 PSA Projects have transferred copies of RBGE plans on microfiche to Estates , and the new microfilm equipment installed in the Library has been used to make hard copy when required .
22 Will information which has been used to determine projected levels of natural resource consumption or calculate growth indicators , such as future private car demand , be covered , for instance ?
23 NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data .
24 A range of techniques has been used to avoid this problem , including chromatographic cellulose fibre powder to remove PCR inhibitors from the samples .
25 The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid .
26 Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols .
27 ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property .
28 The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry .
29 Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved .
30 If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition .
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