Example sentences of "been used [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 2 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 3 | It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale . |
| 4 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 5 | In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate . |
| 6 | Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection . |
| 7 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 8 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 9 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 10 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 11 | When one has been used to the nearest neighbours being several fields away , it would n't do to have someone else 's door or window overlooking every part of the house . |
| 12 | There is really little point in scolding the puppy at this stage , especially if it has not been used to the big outdoors before . |
| 13 | Although the GTP has been used as a late and well-documented model , the same developments could be found wherever the ‘ colonizing roads ’ went in North America . |
| 14 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 16 | Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) . |
| 17 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 18 | The amount of luck that would be required for this feat is unthinkable , and has been used as a telling mind-boggler by Isaac Asimov and others . |
| 19 | Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women 's ineligibility for social security benefits . |
| 20 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 21 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 22 | One of these is run in a large old house in its own grounds in North London which has been used as a private Mother and Baby Home since the late 1920s . |
| 23 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |
| 25 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 26 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 27 | The name ‘ flag ’ may originate from the plant having first been used as a heraldic device by Clovis , king of the Franks in the 5th century . |
| 28 | At Cultoon there is a deep narrow dale in which there is a den that probably had been used as a human habitation . |
| 29 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 30 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |