Example sentences of "[been] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 2 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 3 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 4 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 5 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 6 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 7 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 8 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 9 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 10 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 11 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 14 | The cause was either the butane gas heater or the electric lead lamp Mr Whitley had been using under the car , or both , setting fire to petrol vapours . |
| 15 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 16 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 17 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 18 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 19 | The term ‘ partially sighted ’ has been used over the years to refer to pupils who have vision useful for all school tasks but require adaptations to teaching methods and materials in order to accomplish them . |
| 20 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 21 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | It has not been used outside of CASE before . |
| 24 | Green verdite has been used below the dado rail and for the matching tops of the dressing table and washstand . |
| 25 | Erm the rose i has been used through the centuries . |
| 26 | Had such language been used of an Anglican or Roman Catholic Eucharist the user would have quickly been castigated by Victorian Nonconformists as a ‘ wafer worshipper ’ . |
| 27 | Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ . |
| 28 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 29 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 30 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |