Example sentences of "have be use [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the term was first used funboard has been used to describe any board with a foot strap on it . |
| 2 | 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from sedimentary rocks , and the old term paragneiss has been used to describe these , although this has now been superseded by the simpler term metasediments . |
| 3 | The language of ‘ conditioning ’ , ‘ brainwashing ’ , ‘ indoctrination ’ , and so forth , has been used to describe this force . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Impartiality is a concept which has been used to convey many things . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures . |
| 7 | One class of experiment which has been used to investigate this issue involves what is known as a lexical decision task . |
| 8 | A range of techniques has been used to avoid this problem , including chromatographic cellulose fibre powder to remove PCR inhibitors from the samples . |
| 9 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 12 | The budget could have been used to get this region and the country generally out of recession . |
| 13 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 14 | Lincolnshire County Council had already introduced a pre-ERA scheme of delegation which had been used to fund much of its secondary education . |
| 15 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 16 | Several methods have been used to detect this response , including agglutination , complement fixation , and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |
| 17 | It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades . |
| 18 | The gases have been used to cool most types of fridges for decades but are now headed for a world-wide ban in 1996 after being blamed for causing holes in the ozone layer , which shields the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays . |
| 19 | Several spectroscopic techniques have been used to examine this effect for CO adsorption on single-crystal metal surfaces , but bond energy changes can only be inferred indirectly from these techniques . |
| 20 | A number of approaches have been used to achieve this definition . |
| 21 | Increasingly sophisticated techniques have been used to solve these problems . |
| 22 | Methods have been used to overcome these problems to some degree . |