Example sentences of "use [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The overall style of the loudspeaker remains much as before but the visual appeal has been strengthened with the use of real wood side mouldings , contoured , bevelled cabinet edges and an attractive new plinth which now includes a compartment intended to be filled with lead shot or sand to enhance stability .
2 Routine use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as the first line treatment of depressive illness may greatly increase cost with only questionable benefit .
3 In any event most sellers prefer , as a commercial issue , not to discuss such questions with their buyers , and , instead to protect themselves by the use of appropriate credit vetting procedures , or else , where possible , by requiring payment upon delivery , or even in advance of delivery .
4 A £1 MILLION initiative to cut crime in Glasgow 's city centre through the use of closed circuit television cameras and street wardens could be up and running by the end of the year .
5 In the other five companies , the planning department makes a greater use of online business information services than any other department .
6 As the module database expands the use of online file store increases .
7 First , to identify the contributory factors of success in the use of Strategic Decision Support Systems in order to provide research data to assist in the further development of such systems .
8 We make use of two cycle length records , that presented by Friis-Christensen and Lassen , FCL , and our own estimate , KW ( Fig. 1 ) .
9 They also made much greater use of other health care professionals , such as nurse practitioners ( Drummond & Maynard , 1988 ) .
10 In a recent analysis that compared economic evaluations of the same intervention ( a new drug ) performed by identical methods in four countries , Drummond et al showed that although the drug was 36% more expensive in the United States than in the three European Community ( EC ) countries considered , it was also more cost effective in the United States because of the relative price and use of other health care resources compared with those in the EC ( such as the higher charges for surgical operations ) .
11 In 1987 , the committee of research scientists advised suspended use of such food packaging materials " until appropriate toxicological testing and evaluation have been performed " .
12 The project is primarily concerned with human psychology , but it will have implications towards the building of intelligent artificial systems and the improvement of man-machine interaction in the use of present day computer systems .
13 Use of external database ( Prestel ) use of computer use of alphabetical index keyboard skills Use of dictionary Letter writing use of word processor use of computer keyboard skills Use of telephone ( verbal communication ) Use of street plan Use of bus timetables
14 Until long term studies are available , caution should be exercised in the use of colonic cell proliferation indices as markers of neoplastic potential in human dietary intervention studies .
15 The elimination for cooling requirements and the use of integrated circuit fabrication techniques to produce the image 's solid state detectors are expected to bring the costs of future models down by a factor of ten or more to under £1000 .
16 The use of progressive muscle relaxation exercises , as in the Jacobsen technique ( 1938 ) commonly employed in systematic desensitization , is a possible method .
17 The research will be of general educational relevance , and will also have important implications for the clinical use of short-term memory span tests as a measure of short-term memory capacity .
18 We will increase the use of private sector management skills .
19 In some individual cases the number of items posted will decrease and in other cases there will be a change in the pattern of consumer spending , customers perhaps making use of private sector delivery services .
20 The increased use of trained child care officers who had studied the growth and development of personality meant that more people were aware of the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of compensating a child for the break-up of his or her natural home .
21 A great deal is stuffed into Knowledge Adventure disks through the use of high efficiency compression algorithms and John Cave says that many of the benefits of CD ROM are featured like full motion video , sound , music and speech — without the need for any additional hardware like a CD ROM drive .
22 In the April issue , I explored the use of basic slip stitch designs for knitting fabrics .
23 He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home .
24 Customers ' environments are evolving towards intensive use of commercial transaction processing servers , Hewlett-Packard Co suggests , and such users need support for high-performance commercial-grade input-output while minimising communications costs — and they need a system that is compatible with existing applications and networking equipment .
25 We will deal with optical discs more fully in the next chapter when we examine the technological environment in which multimedia is emerging and , for the moment , will concentrate on gaining some sense of the way in which the use of optical disc information systems is expanding .
26 Leading edge profiles have been improved with the use of stiff Dacron tape sleeves which primarily reinforce the sail but equally important , they offer a ‘ Tear Drop ’ entry to the aerofoil as on yacht sails or hang glider wings .
27 It follows that any proposal for a use with potential odour emission problems could not be classed as ‘ light industrial ’ and might therefore be refused planning permission on the grounds of conflict with the local plan .
28 Drying times are similar to oil paint and all types of oils and mediums formulated for use with conventional tube oil colours can be combined with this product .
29 A postal survey is being conducted to provide a comprehensive national profile of computer use in local authority planning departments .
30 The ANLT is a powerful piece of software designed for use in natural language processing applications .
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