Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] been using [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA .
2 Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear .
3 Experiments have been using deuterium alone , and the temperature of the plasma has been pushed up to 300 million degrees .
4 Since then , the owners have been using buses and bicycles , while all the time the car was in storage , running up a bill of hundreds of pounds .
5 Today environmental health officers have been inspecting the site — there are no toilets and the travellers have been using bushes as public conveniences .
6 For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections .
7 On Earth , progressive tabernacles called ethical investment schemes have been using currency to support social causes for some time .
8 Many Eastern religions have been using techniques such as yoga and meditation for many centuries and both of these techniques hold much common ground with modern clinical relaxation methods .
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