Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 2 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 3 | The beakers could also have been used for pouring libations on an altar in the act of making a vow . |
| 4 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 5 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 6 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 7 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |