Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 2 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 3 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 4 | Furthermore , SI units should have been used rather than cgs . |
| 5 | Purists will long dispute whether it was obviously a mashie-shot , or whether the niblick should have been used . |
| 6 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 7 | Flaws are unacceptable , and only the very finest materials should have been used . |
| 8 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |
| 9 | Now here are two cases where we think " the " should have been used ( __ indicates where we would put " the " ) : |
| 10 | A ladder must have been used to gain access when the mill was in use . |
| 11 | ‘ used by virtue of that licence ’ In other words the vehicle concerned must have been used under the trade licence and not under a normal vehicle excise licence for an offence to contravene the law relating to trade licences . |
| 12 | As news of the result came through , it was blatantly obvious to most people that underhand tactics must have been used against the Tory rebels . |
| 13 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 14 | They must have been used by the painter of the bull depicted on the flat side of a crystal plaque found at Knossos . |
| 15 | Anything would do , but it must have been used by him . |
| 16 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 17 | The order of the list of land birds is almost exactly the same as appears in Darwin 's 1839 Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle , so these notes must have been used by Darwin as the basis for his subsequent publication . |
| 18 | Police said a vehicle must have been used to carry away all the equipment and officers are asking anyone with information to contact them on Middlesbrough 326326 . |
| 19 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 20 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 21 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 22 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 23 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 24 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 25 | Do you think , lad , that it might have been used to bring the body into the alley ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ Morton remarked , ‘ the barrow might have been used by a local resident just to move furniture . |
| 27 | There was a glimpse of the shoe-eating scene from The Gold Rush ; but there were other comic classic moments that might have been used . |
| 28 | Perhaps a similar process might have been used to form the zodiac figures . |
| 29 | While a superficial examination suggests that the same models might have been used , measurement reveals considerable differences ; this may point , therefore , to straightforward copying or replication from memory with or without a model . |
| 30 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |