Example sentences of "[verb] been use the " in BNC.

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1 Bugatti has been using the Clermont Ferrand race track in central France for development work , courtesy of the circuit 's owner , Michelin .
2 Adrian Tutt of Middle Farm , Charndon , near Bicester , has been using the prototype K2-8 to cut 20ha ( 50 acres ) of horse feed hay .
3 Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them .
4 It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends .
5 Since 1975 , William Livingston has been using the world 's largest solar telescope , at Kitt Peak in Arizona , to study these temperature-sensitive spectral lines .
6 At Stanford , Quate has been using the instrument to study coal .
7 It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ .
8 BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive .
9 The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days .
10 When playing with Dominoes , Lotto cards , Snap cards , etc. , the predominant thought has been to use the pictures or patterns on them for matching one-to-one , yet the example quoted shows valuable spin-offs that lead to other equally important mathematical experiences .
11 In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance .
12 In more modern furniture where a composite board of inherent stability , such as plywood , has been used the use of end and side lippings of solid wood is both sage and justifiable in concealing raw edges .
13 In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically .
14 Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection .
15 They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family .
16 His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant .
17 For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge .
18 He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind .
19 Gauleiter Forster , on the other hand , had been using the threat of Russian communism and Polish nationalism as the basis for the development of the NSDAP .
20 Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket .
21 One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work .
22 Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years .
23 Dutch and German waste hauliers had been using the relatively cheap Walloonian dumps for some years , and Dutch waste firms sued on the grounds of interference with free trade .
24 She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened .
25 John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall .
26 Mrs Holding said the company had been using the chemical to remove PVC from Ferryhill Leisure Centre .
27 His one slip had been using the phrase ‘ whole sorry business ’ .
28 If proper security valves , which close after initial pressure is dissipated , had been used the pollution would have been much less , says Moeri .
29 Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires .
30 If an automatic had been used the cartridge cases should be there .
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