Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] be use " in BNC.
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| 1 | To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added . |
| 2 | Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes . |
| 3 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 4 | It had crossed her mind that he was using her , but was n't she using him ? |
| 5 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 6 | The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 . |
| 7 | The amplifier that you 're using on this tour , is that the Ray Butts amp that you used on Elvis 's ‘ Comeback Special ’ ? |
| 8 | The Brache Estate sports ground occupies land sold by the late Lady Zia Wernher to the car company on condition that it be used for sport . |
| 9 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 10 | Is there any point in continuing the development of new implants if we are using revision as the criteria of failure ? |
| 11 | This bacterium has a battery of three genes ( G 1 , G 2 , G 3 in the figure ) , which code for proteins ( P 1 , P 2 , P 3 ) needed by the cell if it is to use galactosides ( energy-rich compounds which may or may not be present in the surroundings ) . |
| 12 | Multidimensional data refers to information such as maps , genetic diagrams and physical characteristics like height and weight and it is used in applications like geographic information systems and medical imaging . |
| 13 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 14 | The one drawback is that bounce is not very efficient in its use of lighting power compared with direct lighting , and you may find that the illumination level is on the low side unless you are using floodlamps of high wattage . |
| 15 | A dedicated machine can be an expensive luxury unless it 's used regularly . ’ |
| 16 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 17 | And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today . |
| 18 | Although moods are likely to be important in driving , subjective risk as defined in the previous chapter appears to be more similar to concepts such as emotional stress or arousal as they are used in the memory literature . |
| 19 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 20 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 21 | So lets convert some per centages into decimals , because this is the trick that you were using , last time you were very good at it . |
| 22 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 23 | Once you have conditioned barbel to feed ravenously they are ridiculously easy to catch , assuming of course that you are using tackle which is adequate enough to handle these tremendously hard-fighting fish . |
| 24 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 25 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 26 | It is further intended to change people 's attitudes so that they drive more smoothly and are aware of the kind of roads that they are using and drive at speeds tailored to fit the environment . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it appears that the distinction is not drawn in the same way in all areas where it is used . |
| 28 | Examples of its use in various ways are to be found in Tristan and Parsifal ( many unaccompanied recitative-like passages ) , Tchaikovsky 's ‘ Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy ’ from the Nutcracker Suite ( very few notes , but marvellously effective ) , Elgar 's Symphony No. 2 ( endless examples of bass clarinet doublings ) , Stravinsky 's Petrushka ( in the 1st scene where it is used with two ordinary clarinets during the extraordinarily realistic hurdy-gurdy episode , and in the Moor 's scene later on with grotesquely sinister effect ) . |
| 29 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 30 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |