Example sentences of "have been use [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 2 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
| 3 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 4 | If application forms/c.v.s have been used correctly many of these questions will already have been answered and the well-prepared interviewer will have familiarized himself/herself with the details . |
| 5 | I 've , I 've got a little knife , I do n't know where I got it from , on it , on it , it says steel and it 's all broken the blade because , you know , it 's been used so much and it 's sharper for even being broken than any thing else I 've got . |