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

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1 The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) .
2 ( d ) Where else have metaphors been used .
3 Th the the other thing erm reference that this other manager has not at no occa on no occasion has that car been used for company use .
4 Had the reasonable foreseeability test been used in Polemis , it is likely that the defendants would have been not liable .
5 How has the cat been used in warfare ?
6 The term ‘ state capitalist ’ has ohen been used to refer to those who run state enterprises in a manner that is virtually indistinguishable from private enterprises .
7 What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ?
8 How often have those powers been used ?
9 How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures .
10 When checking , the drafter should ask : ( a ) Do the terms do what they were intended to do ? ( b ) Do the terms deal with all the points which the drafter wished to deal with ? ( c ) Have all necessary terms been defined ? ( d ) Have words and terms been used consistently throughout the terms ?
11 Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers .
12 This apparently reflected the Syrian conviction that Lebanon had in the past been used by Israel , Iraq and the PLO to attack Syrian interests .
13 Table 5.6 shows a sample passage of handwritten text together with the recognition results for it , and the reductions in the number of candidates which would have been allowed , had a measure of word length been used .
14 The ultra vires doctrine has on the other hand been used to curtail management ‘ generosity ’ to non-shareholder groups in the form of gratuitous payments .
15 This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts had the system been used interactively , as described below .
16 This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively as described below .
17 This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively .
18 Although it has yet to displace the older established metal in western sentiment , court jewellers have for some time been using platinum as a more appropriate setting for diamonds than gold .
19 There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper .
20 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 ’ .
21 Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) .
22 Article 100A has in fact been used in the context of measures relating to health , such as food additives , in the context of consumer protection , such as the indication of prices , as in the legislation on air pollution by gaseous emissions from motor vehicles , to give examples from important areas that could otherwise be subject to national legislation which would have the effect of hindering the free movement of goods .
23 Have all the saucepans been used ?
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