Example sentences of "be use [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 2 | In some traditions worship songs are used for some five or ten minutes before a service to prepare people for worship , often followed by silence . |
| 3 | Vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae meningitis are used in some countries and are currently undergoing extensive trials in the UK . |
| 4 | Ripstop fabrics are used in some top quality bags ; these have a fine grid of stronger fibres running through the fabric , giving extra tear strength without increasing the weight . |
| 5 | Intoxicants and drugs are used by some to escape physical or psychological pain . |
| 6 | Similar breeding systems , with biparental care and monogamy , are used by some cichlid fish , and several species of primate . |
| 7 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 8 | Bolts have also been used on some of the wilder walls of Cheddar Gorge to establish , bolts notwithstanding , some of the most challenging climbs in the region . |
| 9 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 10 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 11 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 12 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 13 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 14 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 15 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 16 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 17 | Since 1925 , it is true , gas has been used in some conflicts , including most recently in the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 18 | At least the powers are there in the statute and have been used in some cases . |
| 19 | The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 . |
| 20 | This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations . |
| 21 | The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies . |
| 22 | One type of ‘ natural ’ matching has been used in some studies of identical ( I ) ( about 1 in 5 ) and non-identical ( N ) twins . |
| 23 | So ‘ bureaucratic ’ pluralism has been used by some in recognizing the more important role of Japanese civil servants ; this has been further qualified as ‘ bureaucratic-inclusionary ’ pluralism to suggest that the widest possible range of citizen consultation is used to assess the national interest . |
| 24 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 25 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 26 | Of course , such a routine must be used with some flexibility . |
| 27 | A clear , bright hue , phthalocyanine green , has to be used with some caution due to its high tinting strength , although it has many mixing applications . |
| 28 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |
| 29 | II Maccabees is not a book to be used without some closer scrutiny . |
| 30 | It can also be used on some burnt stone tools , and is particularly useful if such tools were heated during their manufacture . |