Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 2 | One important reason is that the number of possible distinct uses of topless seems to be , in principle , open ; so any attempt to draw up a determinate closed list would be of questionable validity . |
| 3 | Members agreed a detailed study of possible future uses , incorporating some housing , should be carried out . |
| 4 | Rather than focusing on a few substances which are painted in lurid colours , the specialists say , the goal should be a workplace free of compulsive chemical use of all kinds . |
| 5 | Likewise , words available to describe female genitals — ’ cunt ’ , ‘ slit ’ , ‘ crack ’ , ‘ slot ’ — reflect centuries of sadistic male use . |
| 6 | This advantage apart , the circuit is of limited practical use as the efficiency is not too high due to all the diode drops . |
| 7 | It is likely that the phenomenon of white Creole use owes much to the popularisation of Jamaican musical styles , but the role of music in promoting Creole among the Caribbean population is harder to assess ( see next section ) . |
| 8 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 9 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 10 | There are abundant examples of good new uses for churches and many of these have only emerged in the final stages of battles over individual churches . |
| 11 | The causes of increased monetary use and commercial activity were largely out of his control : but he knew where and how wealth was being generated , and was intent on exploiting that wealth systematically . |
| 12 | The term ‘ functional methacrylates ’ embraces a wide variety of methacrylic esters with a wide range of important industrial uses — in surface coatings , adhesives and printing inks , as oil additives and as flocculating agents in the treatment of sewage and industrial effluent . |
| 13 | It was also at this stage of increasing daily use and possibly injecting that family relationships generally became strained and in many cases reached breaking point . |
| 14 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 15 | In a parliamentary written answer I was told : ’ The sale and possession of knives is subject to a number of controls There will be practical problems in seeking to apply more general restrictions on the sale and purchase of knives which have a variety of legitimate everyday uses . ’ |
| 16 | The rate of known opioid use |
| 17 | The overall rate of known opioid use in the adult population of Wirral was found to be almost 5 per 1,000 , but rates were clearly higher for males ( over 6 per 1,000 ) , 16–24-year-olds ( over 18 per 1,000 ) , and for the unemployed ( about 28 per 1,000 ) ( see Table 2.3 , p.22 ) . |
| 18 | Four of Wirral 's 48 townships clearly have the highest rates of known opioid use , both in their overall and youth populations . |
| 19 | In order further to investigate this implied relationship between heroin use and social deprivation , we employed 1981 Census statistics to examine correlations between the rate of known opioid use and levels of social deprivation in each of Wirral 's 48 townships ( unemployment figures were for May 1985 , and included temporarily sick residents ) . |
| 20 | Significant positive correlations were found between the rate of known opioid use and each of seven indicators of social deprivation ( in both the general and youth populations ) , namely : unemployment , council tenancies , overcrowding , large families , single-parent households , an unskilled labour force , and having no access to a car ( see Parker et al . |
| 21 | There was also a relatively minor but significant correlation between the rate of known opioid use and townships ' population size . |
| 22 | Comparisons of the 48 townships , ranked according to rates of known opioid use , unemployment ( the most highly correlated indicator of social deprivation ) , and population size , confirm the strength of the correlations and also spotlight salient exceptions . |
| 23 | For instance , the ten townships with the highest rates of known opioid use ( average 0.7 per cent ) have a mean population size of about 10,000 , and a mean unemployment rate of 20 per cent . |
| 24 | By contrast , as might be expected , the nine townships with a zero rate of known opioid use have a much lower mean population size of about 1,300 , and a much lower mean unemployment rate of 6 per cent . |
| 25 | First , there are two clear examples of townships with high rates of known opioid use but relatively low rates of unemployment : Wallasey Village ( ranked fourth for opioid use but 33rd for unemployment ) , and Heswall ( 11th against 37th ) . |
| 26 | There were no notable examples of townships with high unemployment but low rates of known opioid use . |
| 27 | Evidence in support of this social process is provided by our finding of a significant correlation between the rates of known opioid use in Wirral townships and their population size . |
| 28 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 29 | The explanation of the high rates of known opioid use in West Kirby and Heswall needs to be somewhat different , since neither is very close to any township with high levels of known opioid use or social deprivation . |
| 30 | The explanation of the high rates of known opioid use in West Kirby and Heswall needs to be somewhat different , since neither is very close to any township with high levels of known opioid use or social deprivation . |