Example sentences of "have be using [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 2 | ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ? |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Solbourne 's Swedish distributor , CynCrona DeFacto AB , Stockholm , has nailed a worldwide internal purchasing agreement with L M Ericsson Telefon AB : the telecomms company has been using Solbourne servers in its Swedish offices since 1990 . |
| 4 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 5 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 6 | I think Jeff Beck used samples of my sound on his ‘ Workshop ’ album , plus Dave himself has been using samples of my sound — if he puts me out of work , he 's in trouble … |
| 7 | By definition , therefore , if the Government has been using oil revenues to create jobs they have been unsuccessful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures . |
| 10 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 11 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 12 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 13 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 14 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
| 15 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 16 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 17 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 18 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 19 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 20 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 21 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 22 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 23 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 24 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 25 | Unconfirmed local sources claimed that the rebels had been using tourist convoys to transport weapons from Algeria . |
| 26 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 27 | Both companies had been using BR 's Railfreight distribution network after the cessation of Speedlink in 1991 and subsequent collapse of TigerRail operations . |
| 28 | Sam had been using tape echo , or slap-back , and whether he was doing it on purpose or not , he also treated Elvis 's voice like another instrument . |
| 29 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 30 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |