Example sentences of "had been use [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause was either the butane gas heater or the electric lead lamp Mr Whitley had been using under the car , or both , setting fire to petrol vapours . |
| 2 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 3 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 4 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 5 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 6 | She recognised the stitching that had been used on the elephant . |
| 7 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 8 | All the right components had been used for a power casting rig , 60 lb main trace line , heavy duty swivels along with good links . |
| 9 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 10 | Goulding J found as a fact that all parts of the sales information had been used for the purposes of the defendant 's business and he divided information into three categories where it was not the subject of any express provision : ( 1 ) Information which because of its triviality or public accessibility was not confidential at all . |
| 11 | Wickham turned his attention to the typewriter which had been used for the death threat . |
| 12 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 13 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 14 | It provoked accusations from the Azerbaijani side that the talks had been used as a cover for an intensification of military action . |
| 15 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 16 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 17 | When the Hewers bought Vine House it had been used as a dormitory for an air Force course int he village during the war . |
| 18 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 19 | The school grounds had been used as a car park during yesterday 's race meeting . |
| 20 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 21 | DISGRACED sprinter Jason Livingston last night insisted he had been used as a scapegoat by British athletics officials . |
| 22 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 23 | Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time . |
| 24 | It was the same in the Loire , at the Chateau de Chavigny , where the famous mirrored salon , built for the seventh baron de Chavigny , had been used as a shooting-gallery . |
| 25 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 26 | well this , no , fifty one , er this was the last house to be completed on this estate because it had been used as a paint store and we were the very last people |
| 27 | These libraries had been used as a means to circumvent a restrictive loan policy applied in the main library , which clearly lacked support from the scientific or library staff within the departments . |
| 28 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 29 | Her head felt muzzy ; her tongue had been used as a mop for an unspeakable floor ; a headache was hovering , waiting to pounce ; this room was n't hers and neither was the shirt she was wearing . |
| 30 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |