Example sentences of "have [been] use " in BNC.
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| 31 | BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive . |
| 32 | Meanwhile , the Italian government is lobbying its EC partners to make Milan the permanent seat of the Community 's environmental agency after 1992. * Italy 's tiny Green Party has been using filibuster tactics to prevent any changes to the Italian tax system which has driven all but one of the major foreign oil refiners from the country . |
| 33 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 34 | The violinist Nigel Kennedy has been using his talents to help rebuild a pub . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 37 | But there was another fire this week at the temporary building which the congregation has been using — the disused gym of the former Our Lady 's grammar school . |
| 38 | When playing with Dominoes , Lotto cards , Snap cards , etc. , the predominant thought has been to use the pictures or patterns on them for matching one-to-one , yet the example quoted shows valuable spin-offs that lead to other equally important mathematical experiences . |
| 39 | For example , a common method in the script recognition literature has been to use n-grams ( Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Ehrich and Koehler , 1975 ; Higgins and Whitrow , 1984 ; Whitrow and Higgins , 1987 ) , or letter transitional probabilities such as the Viterbi algorithm ( Hull , Srihari and Choudhari , 1983 ) , or Markov modelling ( Raviv , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Farag , 1979 ) to rule out illegal strings of letters , or to select the most likely letter combinations . |
| 40 | In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene . |
| 41 | In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance . |
| 42 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 43 | However , Greeley and Rossi 's work also has been used to uphold the defenders ' argument that , though Roman catholic schools varied in their efficiency , they were certainly better than any possible alternative in terms of producing good Roman catholics . |
| 44 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 45 | Features , like seams and folds , should be marked for visual effects before taking up the chisel , as inaccuracies can not be corrected once a deep gouge or V-tool has been used . |
| 46 | In more modern furniture where a composite board of inherent stability , such as plywood , has been used the use of end and side lippings of solid wood is both sage and justifiable in concealing raw edges . |
| 47 | The majority will receive the ‘ Operation Enterprise ’ pack which has been used for a number of years and is known to the movement . |
| 48 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 49 | The above approach towards any type of character role is a very typically English trait and has been used in music halls , pantomimes and comedies fur many years . |
| 50 | More recently liquid CO&sub2 ; has been used and found to achieve a better extract with no risk of solvent contamination . |
| 51 | New wood must be fine sanded and if an orbital sander has been used , it is essential that the final sanding is done by hand with the grain , otherwise small circular marks will be seen in the finish . |
| 52 | Unfortunately , where woodstopping has been used , it is usually apparent as it breaks the natural grain configuration . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , this apparent similarity of method has been used as the basis for attempts , tentative and unlikely as they are , to find a rapprochement between Marxism and deconstruction . |
| 54 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
| 55 | The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park . |
| 56 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 57 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 58 | Despite all this , Fanon deploys some of the worst prejudices that psychoanalysis has been used to reinforce : ‘ All the Negrophobic women I have known had abnormal sex lives … |
| 59 | The plant oil closely resembles sperm-whale oil , which has been used in cosmetics for many years . |
| 60 | The resulting cavity below the central ground floor corridor has been used to house horizontal drain-runs and other services . |