Example sentences of "and use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 2 | It has identified a problem and has worked out a solution probably by trial and error ; and the solution has involved the making and using of a tool . |
| 3 | If attitudes towards deaf people influence the learning and using of BSL , then they almost certainly affect BSL interpreting . |
| 4 | It is this that we have been displaying and using in publications . |
| 5 | The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole . |
| 6 | Obviously one wants a language which enables this without demanding a lot of effort merely to be learnt and used at all . |
| 7 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 9 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 10 | Coal dust should be collected up into strong brown bags , dampened down and used as coal . |
| 11 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 12 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |
| 13 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 14 | 5 ) The main priority was to develop databases which could be shared between members of the group and used as introductory material for school librarians who had newly acquired microcomputers . |
| 15 | And used as a medicine as well . |
| 16 | And used as a medicine ? |
| 17 | It 's just that erm the I S O version , as you quite rightly say , is sort of recognized and used in other countries . |
| 18 | Sometimes we find things like the Moan Lisa , which have been denigrated and used in lots of different ways , but some people when they see it are still overpowered by the beauty of the object . |
| 19 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 20 | That surely has been testified to today when the very convenor of the panel on doctrine admits that he does n't want the statements to be too clear so that they can be understood and used by people of radically different persuasions . |
| 21 | The British were a superior race , blessed with exceptional energy , toughness , and qualities of leadership , which they refined in their play and used throughout the world to promote the rule of law , the Christian religion , and the ‘ rational ’ use of economic resources . |
| 22 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 23 | It gathers detritus ( wood , and other forms of cellulose ) which it carries into the heart of its giant nests , and uses as a substrate on which to cultivate fungi , on which it feeds . |
| 24 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | The total form of a person 's language that he knows and uses at any stage of his development . |
| 26 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 27 | The poem is rich in language , vivid in imagery , mysterious and enchanting in its overall effect and uses to its best advantage various language features to evoke an atmosphere of grandeur and magnificence conveying the author 's passion for something which would otherwise remain a mere vehicle to the reader . |
| 28 | Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world . |
| 29 | Archimedes became ‘ that divine man ’ and Galileo saw in Euclid the wonder of geometry , especially in the work on ratios , which Galileo was to expand and use to its limit later . |
| 30 | Anyone who wants a portable to carry around and use for hours at a time on batteries , will love the 320SLi as much as I did . |