Example sentences of "been used in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , modules such as ‘ Work experience ’ and ‘ Enterprise activity ’ ( each also certificated at three levels and concerning process skills ) have been used in European projects . |
| 2 | We shall start with a description of the banking system , and then proceed to consider the types of monetary policies that have been used in recent years , and their effects . |
| 3 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 4 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 5 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 6 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 7 | The same device has been used in various areas of government activity where the British public is ignorant or indifferent . |
| 8 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 9 | These to date have been used in small quantities as chemical feedstock . |
| 10 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |
| 11 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 12 | This method has been used in such systems as ROBOT ( Harris , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | Ascorbic acid has been used in pharmacological doses for more than 20 years . |
| 14 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 15 | Homophony is probably the commonest choral texture of all , and has been used in all periods . |
| 16 | This definition has been used in other studies . |
| 17 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 18 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 19 | Such chalets have been used in other parts of the country and are also common on the continent . |
| 20 | Battery pods containing groups of AA cells have been used in vast numbers by nearly all detector manufacturers for many years . |
| 21 | Competition , as many writers have told us , is a term that has been used in innumerable senses . |
| 22 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 23 | Prayer rugs ( pls. 5 , 30–31 ) have been used in Muslim countries for centuries , and are an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 24 | The twenties biplanes and monoplanes have been used in major films like Aces High , The Great Waldo Pepper , and Indiana Jones . |
| 25 | Madden has been used in short bursts during the Bombers ' opening games and the ruckman has complained that he has not been given enough playing time and that this is affecting his play . |
| 26 | The condemned techniques had already been used in experimental interrogations in the month or two prior to the UUAC general strike and had demonstrated how effective they were in inducing confessions . |
| 27 | Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees . |
| 28 | Vitrinite reflectance data have been used in structural studies with the principal applications being the estimate of removed overburden at unconformities and the recognition of repeated section caused by faults ( Dow , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | Literature is replete with tales of the power which old people have exercised over property and the way this has been used in intergenerational interactions . |
| 30 | Although finite state grammars are weak they have been used in computational systems . |