Example sentences of "[adj] use of [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 Hence , the challenge for GIS user interface design is to gain credibility for generic forms of interface : it is this form of GIS use that will ensure wider and more informed use of GIS in the years ahead .
2 A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise .
3 16 How do you regard the idea of a moderate and restricted use of animals in medical experimentation ?
4 Despite the widespread use of computers in many areas of work , there is unfortunately a significant degree of misunderstanding concerning them .
5 Judgement : Edwards adds : ‘ Paradoxically , the widespread use of computers in graphic design makes more , rather than fewer , demands on the designer 's judgement .
6 We will not track the development of the MEP in detail but , despite many criticisms of the way it achieved its objectives , it certainly established the widespread use of computers in British schools .
7 Such a system would demand a truly interactive use of computers in a way that allows the very different capabilities of the computer and the human mind to be used to the full .
8 Rubin 's In-house use of materials in public libraries found that if in-house use was measured by counting items left on library tables , the average ratio of items used in the library to items circulated was 0.5 to 1 , while patron interviews on the same theme suggested a ratio of 1 to 1 .
9 In this presentation , Jeremy Rivers reviews the traditional use of computers in enterprises where they have tended to be used for large weekly or monthly batched jobs , such as stock control , invoicing or payroll .
10 The following presentation is divided into : 1 A short review of the traditional use of computers in enterprises .
11 1 A Short Review of the Traditional Use of Computers in Enterprises
12 MSC ( 1986 ) reviews the current use of simulators in twenty U.K. industries .
13 Humans , as it happens , make little use of smells in communicating with others ; but in some other species , such as ants , it is the main method of communication .
14 5.12 Use of isotopes in interpreting vibrational spectra
15 7.4.1 Use of experts in construction contracts
16 Age Concern believes that GPs should be encouraged to make rational , efficient , effective and economic use of resources in relation to prescribing , and that the use of drugs for elderly people should be closely monitored .
17 If Godard 's post-1968 films deliberately gave primacy to sounds over images , his earlier , less didactic films were themselves critiques of an image-centred politics , and in particular of the very political use of images in advertising .
18 In contrast , extensive use of pesticides in Europe , North America and Japan is backed by government legislation or voluntary schemes that provide farmers with detailed advice .
19 In addition , I do not believe that it would necessarily be the most cost-effective use of resources in terms of environmental output to spend such a substantial sum on that project .
20 There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills .
21 It does this in an objective manner devoid of cant and emotion , in the belief that the case for the responsible use of animals in research is both valid and strong .
22 From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display .
23 The growing use of alliances in strategic industries heightens this need to understand the world scene .
24 The rapidly growing use of computers in many areas of everyday living is often referred to as the computer revolution , similar in scale to the 19th century industrial revolution .
25 Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier .
26 And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier .
27 And the increasing use of charters in lawcourts naturally created an incentive to forge , as those who had lost or never enjoyed documentary proof of their rights strove to make good the deficiency .
28 I am pleased to have obtained this debate on the important and serious matter of the increasing use of knives in crimes of violence .
29 A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis .
30 The relatively uncontrolled use of herbicides in the 1950s and 1960s was temporarily to solve that problem .
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