Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osbert Lancaster did some memorable cartoons for the V & A 's ‘ Country House ’ exhibition in which he caricatured the unsuitable new uses to which the great houses of fiction might have been put had they existed in real life . |
| 2 | This will be used to learn more about how the British public use and feel about the telephone and , hence , about the acceptability of telephone interviewing . |
| 3 | Far from shunning the courts , Sri Lankans made what very often seemed to the British excessive use of them . |
| 4 | Equally , individual officers had over reacted to the disturbances with the over zealous use of dogs , truncheons and a number of unlawful weapons . |
| 5 | Three more recent definitions are : ( a ) " The actual intended use of unlawful force to another person without his consent " ( since then recklessness has been added to the mens rea ) per Jones LJ in Fagan v MPC , above . |
| 6 | She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 8 | This in turn was involved with government policies for promoting the nuclear generation of electricity , open cast mining and the privatization of electricity generation , with the threatened increased use of cheap imported coal . |
| 9 | Moreover , despite the widespread day-to-day use of Swahili in the areas visited , many still did not use the language in their own homes . |
| 10 | ( The unfortunate repeated use of constants c 1 and c 2 in this equation should not cause confusion . ) |
| 11 | The cultural materialists abandon the traditional Marxist use of history as a ground for truth in favour of bringing history into the present day in order to intervene in their own institutional and academic political context . |
| 12 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 13 | The village was first mentioned in records of 1707 developing as a result of the increased industrial use of the river . |
| 14 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 15 | The continued addictive use of any substance or behaviour tends in time to lead to problems and to damaging consequences of use . |
| 16 | Intellectual disenchantment did not prevent the continued widespread use of terms such as ESN ( educationally subnormal ) to refer to certain children and schools in the 1970s . |
| 17 | It is fairly clear that no one would now seriously seek to impose a return to the regular liturgical use of Latin or the celebration of private masses or decree an actual dissolution of episcopal conferences , but full acceptance of many of them is still far from clear even in Rome . |
| 18 | Those who embark on this deeper , marketing-centred analysis find it necessary to separate this process from the regular tactical use of the database for sales mailings . |
| 19 | A basic page printer has a rated life ; Canon engines are good for 3,000 pages per month , Ricoh 's can handle 5,000 , and you should expect them to last around three years at the full rated use . |
| 20 | It 's as if the initial prophylactic use was enough to salve any consciences , enough to make everyone think , ‘ Well , we 've done our bit ’ , and nobody mentions their absence second time around . |
| 21 | The explanations given above provide the general framework of analysis to which the various actual uses of to before the infinitive will be referred in this study . |
| 22 | At least it can be said that these educational programmes may diminish the occasional experimental use ( which may be damaging in itself ) by those who do not have addictive disease . |
| 23 | Providing an environmental/conservation clause is inserted , the probable limited use of this non-mandatory provision in the LFA in the UK will not pose any significant problem providing the conservation impact is assessed and acted on . |
| 24 | In particular , there has been great interest in the practical commercial use of artificial intelligence , with many companies and even governments becoming involved . |
| 25 | It was also the only alternative use for which finance was available . |
| 26 | The only good use for such a notebook is for rough note-taking during laboratory experiments , so that you have all the data and observations before you when you come to write your report . |
| 27 | Slavery has taken different forms , depending in part on the particular economic use to which slaves have been put . |
| 28 | Whereas Levitt takes the view that the low prices permitted by scale economies in production offer the key to global marketing success , Quelch and Hoff suggest that the driving factor in global marketing should be the efficient worldwide use of good marketing ideas . |
| 29 | Grice identifies as guidelines of this sort four basic maxims of conversation or general principles underlying the efficient cooperative use of language , which jointly express a general Co-operative principle . |
| 30 | It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis . |