Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 2 | In these various ways biblical criticism has been of use in interpreting the Old Testament and defending its integrity against those who question its truth . |
| 3 | Glycosylated haemoglobin is also a product of a nonenzymatic post-translational reaction , and its measurement has been of use in patients with diabetes mellitus as an indicator of the degree of hyperglycaemia during the preceding 8 weeks . |
| 4 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 5 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 6 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 7 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 8 | The FileNet workflow system ( supplied by Olivetti ) has been in use for some time within the customer services department of the BT mobile division . |
| 9 | Supt Tony Rozier said the building , which has been in use for more than 20 years , had suffered a string of attacks by vandals and thieves , contributing to its demise . |
| 10 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 11 | 4472 ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ has been in use for seven day periods , often utilising fourteen hours per day . |
| 12 | This will replace the complex three-tier system which has been in use in recent years and involved graded brackets ranging from 12.5% on sales up to FFr15,000 down to 2.4% on those over FFr300,000 . |
| 13 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 14 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 16 | The technique was developed by Dr James C. Lewis of Imperial College , London and has been in use since the 1970s , replacing other more elaborate methods such as the use of fish bladders . |
| 17 | Archaeologists and historians studying the period since writing has been in use — the last few thousand years — examine different types of evidence , although they overlap at many points . |
| 18 | One such system , telex , has been in use for many years . |
| 19 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |
| 20 | Acknowledge cards has been in use for some months now just that |
| 21 | But the other thing , which is even more important , is the need to follow up medicines after they have been marketed , because generally speaking the disasters which have occurred erm have occurred once the medicine has been in use and they are terribly rare things . |
| 22 | These vessels could have been in use from any time from c . |
| 23 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 24 | The restoration enables visitors to see it as it would have been in use in good running order but not ‘ as new ’ . |
| 25 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 26 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 27 | The twelve zodiacal signs , of equal lengths of thirty parts each , are known to have been in use from soon after 500 BC . |
| 28 | Indeed , of the books of the Old Testament so far found to have been in use among the Qumran sect , with the exception of Isaiah and the Psalms , most are copies of Deuteronomy . |
| 29 | At the beautiful ridge-top site of Phourni , above the Minoan town of Arkhanes , there is an extraordinary Minoan mortuary-complex which seems to have been in use continuously from 2500 to 1250 BC ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 30 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |