Example sentences of "not been used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been used since 1978 , but became necessary because of the extent of the financial needs of the former Soviet republics , added to other world financial problems . |
| 2 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 3 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 10 | Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ . |
| 11 | The materials have not been used within traditional library lessons , but have been integrated into day-to-day practice of teaching . |
| 12 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 13 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 14 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 15 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 16 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |