Example sentences of "have [been] in [adj] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most famous of all ancient circular temples and , first as a temple , and later as a church , has been in continuous use since its building . |
| 2 | She has been in private use in Scandinavia only , and is very well equipped . |
| 3 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 4 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 5 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 6 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 7 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 8 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 9 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 10 | The Institution , however , did not feel able to recommend such a change after the word ‘ diesel ’ had been in universal use for so long . |
| 11 | We know from Cato the Censor ( 234–149 BC ) , the author of De agri cultura , that the various methods of planting , grafting , training and pruning of the vine , which the Romans would have introduced into Champagne , had been in common use throughout the warmer parts of the empire for at least two hundred years . |