Example sentences of "to have been used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories . |
| 3 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 4 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |
| 5 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 6 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |