Example sentences of "have [be] use in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 2 | In discussing the question of the possible use of the atomic bomb , Farrar-Hockley concludes that it is unlikely that the bombs could have been used in Korea without prior consultation , as ‘ honour and American political interest would have combined to militate against such a course ’ ( p. 386 ) . |
| 3 | The project in Mickley , Northumberland , involving hundreds of children aged from seven to 11 , was made possible by the chance discovery in the old school 's attic of equipment which would have been used in 1892 . |
| 4 | Everything in the sale will have been used in films , television programmes and stage plays . |
| 5 | ‘ That cabinet would have been used in that Granada programme about India , I think , yes Jewel in the Crown , that 's it , ’ he said vaguely during a guided tour of the warehouse . |
| 6 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 7 | It would have been used in training by Canadian soldiers at Medstead during the second world war . |
| 8 | But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians . |
| 9 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 10 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 11 | The swords may have been ceremonial , or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance . |
| 12 | Twelve kilometres to the north is the embayed island of Dia , which had its own port ; with a southerly aspect , it may have been used in emergencies when persistent north winds would have prevented ships intending to dock at Amnisos , Katsamba , or Agii Theodhori from leaving port . |
| 13 | This may have been used in conjunction with a net , or on its own from an open boat . |
| 14 | If the move had been even faster , then the capital costs would no doubt have declined more , and less coal would have been used in more thermally efficient stations . |
| 15 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 16 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 17 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 18 | Detectives hunting the killer of a businessman who was shot dead as he walked his dogs today carried out a reconstruction involving the car and a motorbike that they think may have been used in the murder . |
| 19 | Hence the rate of return on household savings is the relevant measure of the social opportunity cost of public sector resources that could have been used in private consumption . |
| 20 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 21 | The car , a Sierra , had been stolen on Thursday night from nearby Bilsdale Close and neighbouring forces have been alerted to look out for a stolen blue Ford Orion , registration number H814 FYM , which may also have been used in connection with the incident . |
| 22 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 23 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |