Example sentences of "been used [prep] the [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 | In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate . |
| 3 | Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is really little point in scolding the puppy at this stage , especially if it has not been used to the big outdoors before . |
| 8 | The materials have been used as the sole in-service training source and in combination with role-play , the use of outside speakers and video . |
| 9 | Although all three techniques have been used in the past , they have not been used as the prime form of monetary policy . |
| 10 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ community care ’ has been used since the 1960s , but it has never been too narrowly defined and a variety of activities can be numbered as belonging to a community approach to the care of the mentally disordered . |
| 12 | Gilding , silvering and tinning ( all involving the application of a thin layer of metal on to another metal ) have been used since the third millennium BC for decorative or practical purposes and also for deception . |
| 13 | In others the palette knife has been used along the top edge to establish a horizontal band with a raised edge that casts a shadow and produces a distinct demarcation two inches from the top . |
| 14 | At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities . |
| 15 | Each of these derived vectors ( pAcAB3 , pAcAB4 ) have been used for the simultaneous expression of three or four bluetongue virus ( BTV ) genes respectively . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 17 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 18 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 19 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 20 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 21 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 22 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 23 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 24 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 25 | The law , originally intended to combat Ku Klux Klan members intent upon harassing freed slaves , had also been used in the 1960s in support of civil rights campaigners . |
| 26 | However , for reasons previously stated these have not been used in the present design . |
| 27 | This enables water that has been used in the final rinse for previous dishes to be boosted on the next batch to clear off detergents . |
| 28 | It had long been used in the Middle East and , in Europe , was employed in areas subject to Moorish influence like Spain , Sicily and even Provence . |
| 29 | Additional scat samples were obtained from captive mongooses and genets in London Zoo in order to compare the degrees of digestion , but the samples from the captive animals have not been used in the statistical comparisons . |
| 30 | Induced hypothermia is used intraoperatively during cardiopulmonary bypass and has also been used in the intensive care management of cerebral oedema . |