Example sentences of "have [adv] used " in BNC.

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1 Pavilion has hitherto used Bloomsbury for sales representation and DMS-Media Services for distribution .
2 The US computer industry has long used academics to develop software for new high-performance computers .
3 Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) .
4 Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull .
5 Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ?
6 Erm , Chairman , w would the spokesman agree that the that the resources argument which she has just used is is completely fallacious and would she rather expect
7 He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me .
8 His ballet music Sanctus and Carnival and self-explanatory Four Sketches For String Quartet have been performed , he supervised the film soundtrack for Jonathan Demme 's Something Wild , and a Canadian documentary on the Falklands has already used Cale 's score .
9 If Mr Rocard runs into new difficulties , he can always push important bills through with the swift and effective parliamentary guillotine — an arguably undemocratic device he has already used 11 times over the past three years .
10 Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair .
11 Nuclear Electric has already used some of the levy money to finance the construction of Sizewell B.
12 Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed .
13 But behind her is a galley that can burn her down to the waterline , and beside her is Crackbene with a genius for sailing and guns he has hardly used yet .
14 He has hardly used them since .
15 In our passage , almost every verse reads ‘ I ’ or ‘ Me ’ ; in the earlier chapters of the book , Paul has hardly used these words .
16 It is much more likely that Matthew has purposely used a verse that would point towards Jesus as the new Moses who would , once again , lead his people from slavery to freedom .
17 The Yugoslav government has always used its control over the banking system to cover expenditures in excess of its revenues , and this is a major cause of the current economic crisis .
18 Instead he suggests that the centre has always used local government ( and other sub-national governments ) to serve its own political interests ‘ whether the example is the construction of the welfare state , the modernization of sub-national government or the containment of public expenditure .
19 Nyerere has always used Swahili at his public meetings ; he once declared that he had used interpreters on only two occasions .
20 United States proponents of the maquilas argue that these jobs are bound to go anyway and that the advantage of the maquila industry on the border is that it has always used a high proportion of US materials , components and services .
21 The government has repeatedly used violence to suppress opposition demands that President Mobutu Sese Seko 's powers be curtailed .
22 Assad has maintained a ruthless one-party regime based on the army , which he has repeatedly used against domestic opposition and to intervene in Lebanon , where Syria maintains 30,000 troops — a crippling economic burden .
23 Although the official world championship did not start until 1950 , Hamilton has wisely used a broader brush with excellent effect to put the race in an accurate historical perspective .
24 Harryhausen has habitually used quite small models , often in two or more scales , for his stop-motion , hands-on animation method , which he called Dynamation or , latterly , Dynarama .
25 He has also used computers in therapy with the mentally ill , and finds that learning basic PC packages , such as word processing , databases and spreadsheets , gives a great boost to their self-esteem .
26 The Mayo Environmental Group has also used videos to document the havoc wreaked at other mining sites in Ireland .
27 Industrial Light is currently using an Alias system to create computer-generated dinosaurs for Steven Spielberg 's upcoming Jurassic Park film and has also used it for commercials .
28 Skil has also used an antistall mechanism , which is claimed to prevent motor burn-out when the machine attempts to ‘ bite off more than it can chew ’ .
29 First , Patmore ( 1983 ) has broadly replicated the ‘ leisure/resources ’ approach of his pioneering ( 1970 ) text , and the multi-author text Land and Leisure , Fisher , Lewis and Priddle ( 1974 ) , and Doren , Priddle and Lewis ( 1979 ) has also used this approach in the American context .
30 The Conservative government has also used the policy of privatization to reduce the size of public expenditure ( Treasury 1982 ) .
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