Example sentences of "been [prep] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 2 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 3 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 4 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 5 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 6 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 7 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 8 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 9 | ‘ First time that thing 's been of some use ! ’ |
| 10 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 11 | This is the most famous of all ancient circular temples and , first as a temple , and later as a church , has been in continuous use since its building . |
| 12 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 13 | A Mersey Docks and Harbour Company official said : ‘ They are quite old , and have not been in regular use in recent years . ’ |
| 14 | A spokeswoman for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company said : ’ They are now quite old and have not been in regular use in recent years so it was decided to dismantle them to improve the appearance of the area . |
| 15 | She has been in private use in Scandinavia only , and is very well equipped . |
| 16 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 17 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |
| 18 | We know from Cato the Censor ( 234–149 BC ) , the author of De agri cultura , that the various methods of planting , grafting , training and pruning of the vine , which the Romans would have introduced into Champagne , had been in common use throughout the warmer parts of the empire for at least two hundred years . |
| 19 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 20 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 21 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 22 | The third wing , which united the other two , possessed heated rooms which may have been in common use . |
| 23 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 24 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 25 | Country houses that have been in institutional use |
| 26 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 27 | The Institution , however , did not feel able to recommend such a change after the word ‘ diesel ’ had been in universal use for so long . |
| 28 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 29 | Conversely Newco may be entitled to deductions of VAT if the change of use has been from exempt use to taxable use . |