Example sentences of "[been] use [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 ’ ) .
4 Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR .
5 Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically , it does seem to work in practice , and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy .
6 The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers .
7 A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) .
8 the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation
9 There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time .
10 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry .
14 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
15 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 .
16 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 ) .
17 It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators .
21 It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis .
22 These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years .
23 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 .
24 A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose .
25 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 .
26 The money has not been used for that purpose .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree .
30 IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter .
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