Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong infusion made with 50g/ 2oz hyssop to 600ml/1 pint/2/½ cups of water makes an excellent home remedy for sore throats when used as a gargle . |
| 2 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 3 | In analysing the regulatory system it is probably useful to divide the concept of investor protection into the two broad categorisations as used by Gower — honesty and competence . |
| 4 | Other semi-thin paints have similar properties when used with the airbrush . |
| 5 | But documents can be dangerous things if used without care and if , as sometimes happens , they are used for partial and selective purposes . |
| 6 | Equally , training and development is based on the formulation of the current situation being diagnosed against stated outcomes and used as a vehicle to ‘ close the gap ’ in individual and organisational terms . |
| 7 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 8 | ‘ Dirty tricks ’ gave good results when used against the IRAs . |
| 9 | Oligos I and III were methylated , incubated with nuclear proteins and used for band-shifting experiments . |
| 10 | The actual function of the QWERTY keys when used with the Alt and Ctrl keys depends on the software being used . |
| 11 | The carbon dioxide produced by respiration of living creatures and used by plants during the day usually only produces a relatively-small daily cycle of pH change , which is further buffered if any hardness is in the water . |
| 12 | Gadgets are useful in professional hands and used in the right way , but in the hands of a novice they can be dangerous . |
| 13 | The vat can be used as a hot solution reservoir for other activities or used for soaking other equipment . |
| 14 | And in order to accommodate the general rule it has been deemed necessary to deprive certain compound words , like sèche-cheveux , of their plural endings when used in the singular . |
| 15 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 16 | THIS can be cut into small festive shapes and used for Christmas tree decorations . |
| 17 | While this beginning is effective in showing organisation , it delays getting into the argument , and could be rewritten in the following way , which both demonstrates organisation less clumsily and gets immediately to the point : Since the terms " lyrical " and " epic " present special difficulties when used of Middle English works , it is useful to introduce discussion of works of the period with a brief analysis of these two terms . |
| 18 | Yet the estimates of the incidence of lone-parent families as used in various formulae for the 1985/6 GRE assessment are mutually inconsistent and also inconsistent with the estimates used in 1983/4 . |