Example sentences of "had be use [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 2 | These had received pre-training in which the CS had been used to signal electric shock — pre-training designed to interfere with the final stage of appetitive conditioning . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | In Bacton stud farmhouse , only sprigs of holly now decorate a dining table that had been used to display forty eight pieces of antique silver . |
| 5 | It became clear that most investment and credits in the urban sector had been used to finance further mechanisation and capitalisation , creating limits to labour absorption of industrial sectors . |
| 6 | Lincolnshire County Council had already introduced a pre-ERA scheme of delegation which had been used to fund much of its secondary education . |
| 7 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 8 | With a central lawn and borders around the edge , this garden would have lacked character , but internal hedges and a patio overhead had been used to create distinct areas that can be explored like the rooms of a house , each with a new mood and style . |
| 9 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 10 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |