Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] use " in BNC.
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| 31 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 32 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 33 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 34 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 35 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 36 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 37 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 38 | A spokesman pointed out the jet had been in use for five years and there had been no complaints until recently . |
| 39 | In 1860 Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners , who were then operating the ferries , issued metal discs stamped ‘ B'head Ferry ’ to annual contractors in place of the cardboard tickets that had been in use until then . |
| 40 | At least four have been in use for so long that we have no idea when they were discovered . |
| 41 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 42 | In the European Community of 12 nation states , for instance , no less than eight procedures for calculating potential evapo-transpiration have been in use ! |
| 43 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 44 | I have still got two quilts that she made , which have been in use for as long as I can recall . |
| 45 | The majority of these forms have been in use since October 1967 when the drink/driving law regarding being over the prescribed limit ( OPL ) was introduced . |
| 46 | Such craft have been in use since humanity 's very earliest days ; they are an example of an invention which serves its purpose so well that there is little need to improve upon it . |
| 47 | Nigel said , ‘ My whistles have been in use on a number of locomotives on different railways . |
| 48 | One author has got plastic pan scrubbers that have been in use for nearly twenty years and are still going strong to this day |
| 49 | Stemming procedures have been in use for many years , mainly as a relatively cheap way of conflating terms which are morphologically similar in the hope that they are also semantically similar . |
| 50 | We sincerely hope that 's been of use to you . |
| 51 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 52 | This particular model 's been in use by the RAF since 1958 . |
| 53 | ‘ It 's been in use since 1925 . |
| 54 | ‘ It 's been in use since 1925 and accommodated fields as large as 66 for the 1929 National . |