Example sentences of "[been] use for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 4 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 5 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 6 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 7 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 8 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 9 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 10 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 11 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 12 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 13 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 14 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 15 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 16 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 17 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 18 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 19 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 20 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 21 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 22 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 23 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 24 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 25 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 26 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 27 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 28 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 29 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 30 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |