Example sentences of "been used [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the quality of the translation may be tested by examining the items indexed under a number of possible terms that might have been used to describe a subject in an index . |
| 2 | The wooden pallet bed is n't needed for rest , and like the rest of the room has been used to mount a display for one of Bremer 's collections . |
| 3 | The problem with a literal approach is that it has frequently been used to persuade a court that wholly unlikely consequences might arise and that the court should , in the light of those consequences conclude that the restraint is unreasonable . |
| 4 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |
| 5 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 6 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 7 | The AWK programming language has been used to implement a variation of the collocation technique described above . |
| 8 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |
| 9 | In the Report " art " had been used to legitimate a realm of cultural value in such a manner as to render it equally immune from state interference and democratic accountability . |
| 10 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 11 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 12 | ‘ The Commission would have to assess whether the evidence compiled by the Daily Mirror could have been used to obtain a conviction in criminal proceedings . |
| 13 | Another name for an eruption is a ‘ burst ’ ( but this is sometimes used to mean the process generating an eruption rather than the eruption itself ; conversely , it has been used to mean a sequence of an eruption plus an inrush ) . |
| 14 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 15 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 16 | A natural material that has this type of structure is coral , which has been used to produce a range of implant ceramics . |
| 17 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
| 18 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 19 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 20 | Lawyers and sections of the media have been concerned that the plastic sheet prevents electronic document analysis ( Esda ) , which has been used to correct a number of miscarriages of justice — including wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six , Guildford Four and Tottenham Three . |
| 21 | A duplicate key is thought to have been used to enter a bungalow in Daytona Drive , Northop Hall , where property worth almost £4,000 was stolen . |
| 22 | SUMMARY : Vitrinite reflectance data for the Carboniferous in 68 Southern North Sea Basin wells have been used to determine a maturity-depth relationship for the basin and to provide an estimate of basement inversion . |
| 23 | Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions . |
| 24 | Skills learned in decommissioning AEA 's own facilities , at sites from Winfrith in Dorset to Dounreay in Scotland , have already been used to assist a number of pharmaceutical organisation in planning and implementing their own decommissioning operations . |