Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] used [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 2 | Ever since the 1920s , the Norwegians have used lime , in some lakes , to produce better fish stocks . |
| 3 | The firm 's commercial director David Fellowes explains : ‘ For years , shops have used colours to attract people . |
| 4 | Many authors have used estimates generated by others in their own league table ; did they check the original analyses ? |
| 5 | What we can more profitably do is look at the way speakers have used code switches in the past , in an effort to understand their motivations . |
| 6 | Since the first performance of Giselle , certain composers and arrangers have used leitmotifs fur one or several characters and repeat the leitmotifs each time the characters appear . |
| 7 | Pension funds have used property unit trusts as a cheap method of diversifying into the property market , without the problems associated with actually dealing in the properties themselves . |
| 8 | Recent studies showing predominantly presynaptic LTP have used 2.5mM Ca 2+ for slice experiments , and some have reported a high proportion of failures , suggesting low initial release probabilities . |
| 9 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 10 | With a few exceptions , the ways the House has been covered by the cameras — and equally the ways the broadcasters have used television coverage of the House in the programmes — have changed little since the experiment began . |
| 11 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | However , composers such as Webern have used accompaniments based on canon or loose forms of imitation in both solo and choral pieces . |
| 13 | Margaret and Mo Nabbach have used L'Oréal products to create these tumbling , shiny locks |
| 14 | Both these discs of the Copland Old American Songs offer the original versions with piano accompaniment , where most artists on disc have used Copland 's orchestral arrangements . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 16 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 17 | Princeton University Press is offering Fields of Vision : Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels ( £32.25 , $45 ) , in which the author explores the ways in which artists from the later eighteenth century to the present day have used landscape as a way of embodying their national feelings , and how painters like Turner and Constable contributed to a ‘ myth ’ of national identity . |
| 18 | Though Japanese firms have used robots to ease their labour shortage , they have stressed most their use in boosting quality . |
| 19 | Some studies have used money , toys , or sweets as rewards . |
| 20 | Morita et al have reported toxic effects of sodium butyrate above 2 mM in a colon cancer cell line and it may be that previous studies have used concentrations of butyrate that are higher than optimal . |
| 21 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 22 | A number of academics have used census data to plot details of changes in distribution in the inter-war and post-war periods ( e.g. Willats and Newson 1953 , Carter 1956 , Moisley 1962 , Champion 1976 , Lawton 1977 , Compton 1982 ) . |
| 23 | In the past , people have used models of particular institutions carrying out legislative , executive and judicial functions , that is law-making , law-implementation and law-adjudication . |
| 24 | But other people have used things like tokens which can be y'know saved up to exchanged for consumer durables for example . |
| 25 | Both Britain and the US have used polonium in the atomic bombs they have exploded . |
| 26 | The further suggestion that Nicolas of Damascus may in his turn have used Polybius only shows that the subject is not worth pursuing . |
| 27 | So the fact that the liberation of Kuwait is the primary target , then the invaders have used force , therefore force is the counterbalance and what is happening right now is they try to dismantle this war machine and make it ineffective , so it is interconnected . |
| 28 | For instance , a number of building societies have used ACORN to promote premium savings services only to those account holders who live in particularly affluent neighbourhoods ; an electricity board promotes electric central heating only to those of its consumers living in agricultural ACORN types ( beyond the reach of gas ) . |
| 29 | For the bridge Encore have used rosewood , with the strings fixed through from the rear edge . |
| 30 | These are just two out of many hundreds of cases in which the police have used hypnosis to refresh the memories of witnesses and victims of crime . |