Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be use [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 2 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 6 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 7 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 10 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 12 | It has been used on many ceremonial occasions over the past 25 years and serves as a constant reminder of the common history and friendship shared . |
| 13 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 14 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 15 | The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 . |
| 16 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 17 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |