Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |