Example sentences of "have be use " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 2 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 3 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 4 | Of course many companies , particularly in manufacturing industry , will have been using ‘ time and attendance ’ systems for some time . |
| 5 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 6 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 7 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 8 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 9 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
| 10 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 11 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 12 | In an article in Nature , Susan Solomon and Daniel Albritton of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration argue that policy makers may have been using too long a time scale to measure the destructive potential of CFCs , halons and their substitutes . |
| 13 | And er , if we should n't have been using it , what 's the alternative ? |
| 14 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 15 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 16 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 17 | Collect any powders , tablets or anything you think may have been used to take the drug . |
| 18 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 19 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 20 | The cemetery , which probably contains at least 300 Dark Age graves , may have been used by the inhabitants of a statelet possibly known as the Barringas - ‘ the people of Barra ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 24 | It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle . |
| 25 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 26 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 27 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 28 | The only possible way your ‘ burning ’ could have been used was as yet another tool of control . |
| 29 | The text is illustrated with examples drawn mainly from the Roman world , although different examples from other periods and cultures could easily have been used instead . |
| 30 | This absence of small denominations would clearly limit the extent to which coinage could have been used . |