Example sentences of "been used [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 2 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 3 | They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys . |
| 4 | This method has been used with increasing success since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Bt var israelensis ( Bti ) rapidly became the basis for commercial products for mosquito control and has been used with considerable success in many countries . |
| 6 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 7 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 8 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 9 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 10 | These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors . |
| 11 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 12 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 13 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 14 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 15 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 16 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 17 | The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer . |
| 18 | One place where Westmorland slate has been used to great advantage is in the new Coventry Cathedral , but it can also be seen in vernacular building , particularly at Elterwater ( q.v. ) and Troutbeck . |
| 19 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 20 | Lustre powder has been used to great effect here , giving a lovely ephemeral glimmer to the castle . |
| 21 | Here , an unusual combination of ash and cherrywood has been used to superb effect . |
| 22 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 23 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 24 | Lying to the south-west of Worcester city , St Wulstan 's had not historically been used for mental health services . |
| 25 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 26 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 27 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 28 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 29 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 30 | Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort . |