Example sentences of "had been used in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 2 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 3 | When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time . |
| 4 | It had been used in India to control over-excitement and mania . |
| 5 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 6 | Carbohydrate restriction had been used in the preinsulin era to try to control hyperglycaemia . |
| 7 | But they did n't change it because the only one of similar age available to them had been used in the previous match when Waqar took seven for 87 against Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | Post-mortem tissue was made available to us from talapoin monkeys ( Cercopithecus talapoin ) that had been used in unrelated endocrinological studies . |
| 9 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 10 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |
| 11 | No part of these test documents had been used in the creation of any collocation dictionary . |
| 12 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 13 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 14 | Many of Dalton 's circles had been used in the past in alchemy or pharmacy with one or more meanings , very different from that of one atom of a chemical element which Dalton meant them to represent . |
| 15 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 16 | There was a hint that the threat of revocation had been used in this and other communications with difficult councils . |
| 17 | That element had been a twentieth-century discovery and , within a few years of its first refinement , had been used in new and more powerful weapons of destruction . |
| 18 | RICO was originally intended for use against organized crime [ see p. 35503 ] , but had been used in 1988 in a number of financial malpractice cases including that of Drexel Burnham Lambert [ see below ] . |
| 19 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 20 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 21 | Relations with Australia were also damaged in June by an admission from the PNG military that helicopters provided by the Australian government for transport and surveillance purposes had been used in February 1990 to dump the bodies of executed BRA rebels into the sea . |
| 22 | The Democratic Party [ see p. 38707 ] claimed that agents provocateurs had been used in the area . |
| 23 | what methods had been used in the review ; |
| 24 | Respondents were asked to say to what extent ( if at all ) each of these had been used in their own review . |
| 25 | To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics . |
| 26 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 27 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 28 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 29 | The Labour Party rejected the United Peace Alliance , though with more reasoned argument than had been used in dismissing the United Front on previous occasions . |
| 30 | A Ruger revolver found in a hedgerow near the car had been used in Mr McTasney 's murder , the court heard . |