Example sentences of "they [verb] be use " in BNC.
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| 1 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 2 | The notions of excellence they embody are used to fortify and legitimize the sacred and profane dimensions of authority while at the same time denoting official executants by means of appropriate insignia . |
| 3 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 4 | The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ? |
| 5 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 6 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 7 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 8 | But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used . |
| 9 | Second , they risk being used ( misused ) to judge the performance of schools and of teachers in ways which are not in our best interests ( HM Inspectorate presently exists to oversee standards of teachers and schools , and can offer constructive criticism where necessary ; what is wrong with this system ? ) ; |
| 10 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 11 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 12 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 13 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 14 | I mean she uses her father 's and th th they 've been using . |
| 15 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 16 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 17 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 18 | Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food . |
| 19 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 20 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 21 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 22 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 23 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 24 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 27 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 28 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 29 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 30 | But not before they had been used . |