Example sentences of "[adj] the use of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynch moved the headquarters of boxing in Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow , and made practicable the use of football stadiums for open-air boxing shows . |
| 2 | If the projected examination schedules are retained in the computer , printouts can be obtained of the examinations scheduled for the next day or week , so rendering unnecessary the use of a manual diary for the control of test schedules . |
| 3 | Since 1986 the use of qualified majority has been progressively extended , in particular to most measures intended to complete the internal market i.e. the 1992 programme . |
| 4 | The Americans for example may build part of the telescope and throw in a launch to cover half the cost of £60 million ; a similar deal has given American astronomers half the use of the German Rosat . |
| 5 | 2.3.3 The Use of Semantic Information |
| 6 | NB : In 1993 the use of this term applied to any sparkling wine made outside the Champagne region will be outlawed . |
| 7 | Figure 2 The use of precious substances through time . |
| 8 | 2 The use of NSAIDs and colonisation by Helicobacter pylori were the only independent variables that influenced PGE 2 concentrations . |
| 9 | The first involves the use of sprinklers mounted in the face of the rack , and the second the use of horizontal barriers within the rack to delay the upward spread of flame . |
| 10 | In 1940 the use of sugar for cake icing was prohibited — tiered wedding cakes were frequently made of cardboard and hired from bakers . |
| 11 | In the 1720s the use of walnut went into sharp decline and it was replaced by mahogany . |
| 12 | 2.2 THE USES OF ARITHMETIC |
| 13 | For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain . |
| 14 | They accounted for 80% of the prenatal diagnoses in mothers under 35 and 25% of such diagnoses in older women , for whom maternal age is still the most common indication although in these the use of serum screening is increasing . |
| 15 | 7.3 The Use of Elicitation Techniques |
| 16 | Since 1957 the use of such orders has been gradually extended , most recently in relation to the Community Charge . |
| 17 | Of course , many of the bench marks by which sparkling wines are judged are those of the traditional Champenoise The French , true to form , have managed to ban all the use of the term ‘ Methode Champenoise ’ and wine makers are currently scratching their heads for an alternative . |
| 18 | ‘ The mindless violence , the personal attacks and injury , ’ asserted Philip Knights , President of the Association of Chief Police Officers , ‘ and above all the use of violence in all its forms to further political creeds , are relatively new to the streets of this country . ’ |
| 19 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 20 | To that very limited degree , such a program would avoid the puzzle posed by the Wittgensteinian remark , about how it is possible to locate the right sense without any ‘ conscious ’ access , even in principle , to all the uses of the word . |
| 21 | On the basis of the meanings expressed , all the uses of the to infinitive can be divided into two general types which at first sight might seem to be in direct contradiction with one another . |
| 22 | All the uses of need and dare as full modal auxiliaries involve therefore a non-assertive quality whereby the needing or daring are not asserted but denied , questioned , conceded , represented as mere possibilities rather than as real events . |
| 23 | What is important for explaining the occurrence of the bare infinitive here is the way the means are viewed by the speaker : all the uses of how + bare infinitive involve a clear negative bias as to the existence of any means of realizing the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 24 | The non-assertive quality is of course obvious in all the uses of blend dare which parallel those of the full modal : ( 48 ) And when I saw he was attracted by someone else , the fear and the jealousy that seized me ! |
| 25 | This analysis must however be extended if it is to cover all the uses of the infinitive since there are also cases in which the latter is not in relation with another verb , as in the following exclamations : ( 1 ) Oh to be in England now that April 's there ! |
| 26 | This way of regarding the infinitive 's relation to person can be applied moreover to the uses already examined in Chapters Two and Three , where this form is related to another verb in the sentence and thus provides a coherent explanation covering all the uses of both versions of the infinitive by means of a single principle of analysis . |
| 27 | However , by the 1780s the use of stoneware was succeeded by porcelain and earthenware sauce-boats . |
| 28 | This view accepts that these general principles can apply to render illegal the use of weapons , even new weapons , which are not covered by any specific ban . |
| 29 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
| 30 | 11 The use of citation counts in performance assessment may influence citing behaviour . |