Example sentences of "to have been used [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These objects are actually made of brass , but are believed to have been used for the weighing of gold dust ( fig. 9.4 ) . |
| 2 | New Zealand was amply supplied with basalt , greywacke and argillite , each of which is known to have been used for the adze blades used to shape the timbers required for canoes , houses and defensive works . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 4 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 5 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 6 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 7 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 8 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 9 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |
| 10 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 11 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 12 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 13 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 14 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 15 | The senses of polysemous words ( such as ’ charge ’ or ’ rate ’ ) are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs . |
| 16 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 17 | However , it may be possible to get some idea about the information that was likely to have been used in the recognition studies by simply asking people to describe the films . |