Example sentences of "it have [adv] be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution . |
| 2 | Originally a tearoom and a sweet shop , it has also been used as a billiard hall and a printers ' shop . |
| 3 | The trees bearing Cox 's Orange Pippins are vigorous enough to be favourites for orchards in Britain and several other countries with a similar climate , and it has also been used as a parent in breeding a number of other varieties which share some of its desirable characteristics . |
| 4 | It has also been used by Givón ( 1979a ) in his argument that , in the development of a language , sentential subjects are derived from ‘ grammaticalised topics ’ . |
| 5 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 6 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 7 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ It has already been used at the International Children 's Festival in Inverleith , the Meadows Festival and the Royal Highland Show . |
| 9 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 10 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 11 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 12 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 13 | In practice it has mainly been used in the fields of food , cooking and beauty . |
| 14 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 15 | ( Euroniche ( 1989 ) alleges that it has recently been used on pigs in Utrecht . ) |
| 16 | It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing . |
| 17 | The house , Carpendens Court , dated from the time of Charles I ; it had lately been used as a nursing home and was in sad disrepair . |
| 18 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 19 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 20 | The Corporation of the City of London had long maintained a non-denominational burial ground , though it had predominantly been used by Dissenters . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |