Example sentences of "be in use " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 3 | Only about one-third of the state sector secondary school teachers questioned by the University of Sheffield team for the Elton Committee reported that in their school corporal punishment had not been in use prior to 1987 when it became illegal . |
| 4 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 5 | At least four have been in use for so long that we have no idea when they were discovered . |
| 6 | The twelve zodiacal signs , of equal lengths of thirty parts each , are known to have been in use from soon after 500 BC . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It probably came there from Babylonia , where the simplest form of the outflow type had already been in use before the time of the early Shang period ( c. 1500 BC ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the European Community of 12 nation states , for instance , no less than eight procedures for calculating potential evapo-transpiration have been in use ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I have still got two quilts that she made , which have been in use for as long as I can recall . |
| 16 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 17 | The FileNet workflow system ( supplied by Olivetti ) has been in use for some time within the customer services department of the BT mobile division . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 23 | Nigel said , ‘ My whistles have been in use on a number of locomotives on different railways . |
| 24 | 4472 ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ has been in use for seven day periods , often utilising fourteen hours per day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | One author has got plastic pan scrubbers that have been in use for nearly twenty years and are still going strong to this day |
| 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 | 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 . |