Example sentences of "have long been use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 2 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 3 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 4 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 5 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 6 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 7 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 8 | Bismuth has long been used in the treatment of digestive problems and a typical bismuth drug in the British pharmaceutical codes ( BPC ) for 1949 was Pulvis Bismuth Compositus , BP , a mixture of bismuth carbonate , magnesium carbonate and sodium carbonate . |
| 9 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 10 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 11 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 12 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 13 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 14 | This had evolved from the ancient single red R. gallica and had long been used in medicine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 17 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 18 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 19 | Both wills and inventories have long been used by historians of the late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries . |
| 20 | The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ? |