Example sentences of "[been] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 2 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 3 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 4 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 5 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 6 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 9 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 10 | Bugatti has been using the Clermont Ferrand race track in central France for development work , courtesy of the circuit 's owner , Michelin . |
| 11 | I 've been using a leave-in conditioner on my hair and am very pleased with the results . |
| 12 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 13 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 14 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 15 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 16 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 17 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 18 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 19 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 20 | Adrian Tutt of Middle Farm , Charndon , near Bicester , has been using the prototype K2-8 to cut 20ha ( 50 acres ) of horse feed hay . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 23 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 27 | Dr Ken Towner , a microbiologist at the University Hospital , Nottingham , has recently been using DNA probes to identify and classify the various DHFRs ( Epidemiol . |
| 28 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 29 | But we have been using the term ‘ performing ’ for what the actor does — an act of describing to non-participants who are present as spectators . |
| 30 | I have only been using LM potencies actively for about nine monthe . |