Example sentences of "been used [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a vehicle which has been used on roads outside Great Britain , while it is being driven after its importation into Great Britain on the journey from the place where it has arrived in Great Britain to a place of residence of the owner or the journey from any such place where , by previous arrangement , the vehicle will be provided with such anchorage points and seat belts as will comply with requirements of this regulation ; or |
| 2 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 3 | ( Euroniche ( 1989 ) alleges that it has recently been used on pigs in Utrecht . ) |
| 4 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 5 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 6 | This conceptualization , no different intrinsically from that of " filling " , has been used with discretion in the systemic analysis of M. O'Connor. , His primary example is Num 23.7 : |
| 7 | Another form of repo which has been used at times of particularly heavy tax receipts by the government is one undertaken directly with the banks . |
| 8 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 9 | I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy . |
| 10 | At local level the survey 's findings have been used as part of the Lingdale Revitalisation Project , to argue the case for converting the old village primary school into homes . |
| 11 | The cubeoctahedron , dodecahedron , icosahedron and various other semi and demi-regular solids have been used as models for geodesic domes . |
| 12 | It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use . |
| 13 | Traditionally , the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters . |
| 14 | He illustrated this by describing how alkaloids had been used as poisons since Roman times ( murder ) , through the discovery of the pain killing effects of morphine ( medicine ) and finally the hallucinogenic activity of LSD ( magic ) . |
| 15 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |
| 16 | As Raymond de Becker points out , they could have been used as gospel by the naive , or turned into parlour games by sceptics . |
| 17 | Mr. Tony Favell , supported by Mr. David Harris , presented a Bill to remove from registers of common land and registers of town or village greens dwellinghouses registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 which had been used as dwellinghouses for a minimum of twenty years immediately prior to the commencement of that Act ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 24 February and to be printed . |
| 18 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 19 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 20 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 21 | Heart rate and skin conductance have been used as measures of arousal , and unusually high levels have been reported ( e.g. Venables , 1964 ) . |
| 22 | 1984 ; Luker 1988 ) have all been used as methods of routinely screening all the elderly in a given population . |
| 23 | Intermediate measures of output have often been used as surrogates for ultimate output : the use of marking in examinations has dominated education for over 150 years . |
| 24 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 25 | There are also Roman siegeworks which may have been used for exercises by troops from nearby temporary camps still visible around Pennymuir . |
| 26 | As for its liaison with IBM , Barclays claims it only has nine RS/6000s , which have been used for evaluation as part of its open systems strategy . |
| 27 | Since the launch of the first bus the vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 70 LEAs and schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 28 | Since the launch of the WISE I bus in 1984 vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 100 LEAs and 1000 schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales , quite apart from the members of the public who have seen the vehicles at exhibitions , conferences and special events . |
| 29 | Since the launch of the WISE 1 bus in 1984 the five vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 90 LEAs and 850 schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 30 | Recently the microcomputers have been used for competitions during break-time to raise money for charity . |