Example sentences of "has been [adv] use [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The presence of Thalassiothrix in Neogene sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific has been widely used as an indicator of significant upwelling and high primary production .
2 This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland .
3 The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff .
4 * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America .
5 No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons .
6 Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water .
7 However , the Rubislaw Quarry , stone from which has been widely used throughout the area , is located in the Aberdeen granite , which is less geochemically evolved and has a lower uranium content than the other granites .
8 This type of system which originated in the United Kingdom has been widely used throughout Europe and is gaining in popularity in the United States of America and Japan .
9 The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) .
10 Despite the fact that the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in research laboratories , its clinical utility in chronic hepatitis C is not established .
11 The Adaptive Behavior Scale requires a rater to record the level and/or consistency of individual performance in living skills ; it has been widely used in American and British studies of deinstitutionalization .
12 The median voter model has been widely used in both theoretical and empirical ( see Section 10–5 ) work ; it does , however , rest on the assumption that a majority voting equilibrium exists .
13 COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK .
14 The per cent time that gastric pH is >4 has been widely used in estimating abnormal increases in gastric pH .
15 Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads .
16 Predatory pricing has been widely used by both incumbents and entrants to the eurobond markets .
17 The example of the less traditional manufacturing regions of Italy has been well used in the literature .
18 Our aid to Kenya has been well used in helping to improve living standards and prospects for the poorest .
19 Exhibition area in foyer of the Centre , which has been well used in the past by CEDC , and which has the advantage of being open on Saturdays .
20 Already this system has been extensively used in the USA where , increasingly , the Medicare system is reimbursing hospitals on the basis of a price per DRG .
21 A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute .
22 Aluminium powder has been extensively used in this way ( ‘ silver' paint is a convenient source of sufficiently fine particles ) , particularly in silicone oils and other highly viscous liquids .
23 Vibrational spectroscopy has been extensively used by inorganic chemists since about 1940 , particularly with the development of infra-red ( IR ) and Raman spectrometers that are reliable and easy to use .
24 The D trumpet has been increasingly used by modern composers , notably Britten .
25 This approach has been successfully used with a number of well known models of the UK economy , including the models of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , the London Business School and HM Treasury .
26 This technique has been successfully used in our laboratory for the identification of B virus DNA in previous cases of fatal B virus infection .
27 Dextrose has been successfully used by trained ambulance staff , as has glucagon with or without a glucose drink .
28 The fibre composite model has been successfully used by the author and his associates to explain the properties of ultra-drawn polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene .
29 As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent .
30 So we do feel that er , while children feel they do n't er have the freedom , we feel that er , er , er a very nice system , which has been socially used for , is being sacrificed because we are living in a different set-up .
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