Example sentences of "has been use " in BNC.

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1 In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines .
2 Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor .
3 Bugatti has been using the Clermont Ferrand race track in central France for development work , courtesy of the circuit 's owner , Michelin .
4 Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington .
5 The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle .
6 But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
7 Adrian Tutt of Middle Farm , Charndon , near Bicester , has been using the prototype K2-8 to cut 20ha ( 50 acres ) of horse feed hay .
8 Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them .
9 It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends .
10 Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’
11 Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures .
12 Since 1975 , William Livingston has been using the world 's largest solar telescope , at Kitt Peak in Arizona , to study these temperature-sensitive spectral lines .
13 At Stanford , Quate has been using the instrument to study coal .
14 Dr Dafydd Griffiths , at the Institute of Archaeology , has been using these techniques to find answers to these questions , which could throw considerable light on past trading routes and cultural contacts .
15 Incumbent Saatchi & Saatchi has been using a 90-second ad with the key line ‘ For him , for her , forever …
16 I think Jeff Beck used samples of my sound on his ‘ Workshop ’ album , plus Dave himself has been using samples of my sound — if he puts me out of work , he 's in trouble …
17 ‘ OK , let's just look at these phone-booths the rat has been using .
18 No-one has been using them long enough to know .
19 The organisation is about to move away from the combined paper-based and spreadsheet systems it has been using to produce its statutory and management accounts .
20 He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white .
21 The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly .
22 He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster .
23 Meanwhile , Solbourne 's Swedish distributor , CynCrona DeFacto AB , Stockholm , has nailed a worldwide internal purchasing agreement with L M Ericsson Telefon AB : the telecomms company has been using Solbourne servers in its Swedish offices since 1990 .
24 John Larson , Head of Inorganic and Sculpture Conservation at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside , who is also pioneering the laser scanner , has been using a type of laser developed by Loughborough University in a trial run to clean the limestone sculptures at Lincoln Cathedral .
25 The thing is , he has been using for such a long time .
26 Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures .
27 By definition , therefore , if the Government has been using oil revenues to create jobs they have been unsuccessful .
28 ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ?
29 It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ .
30 BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive .
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