Example sentences of "been use [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 2 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 3 | However , it appears that 2 star petrol is now unavailable in our area , so we have been using 4 star in its place . |
| 4 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 5 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 6 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 7 | Notice that we have been using reverse operations to show direction , Forward or " plus " to the right of 0 , backward or " minus " to the left . |
| 8 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 9 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 10 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 11 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 12 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 13 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 16 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 17 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 18 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 19 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 20 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 21 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 22 | Been using that thing that we bought . |
| 23 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |
| 24 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 25 | Lutyens had been using classical detail in some form or other since his earliest years as an architect . |
| 26 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 27 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 28 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 29 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 30 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |