Example sentences of "' use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of india-rubber gloves was purchased from Messrs. Anthony and Son for the nurses ' use at a cost of 8s. which he claimed from the Board , with Dr. Phillips ' fee of one guinea for a further anaesthetic , when an old dislocation of the shoulder was reduced . |
| 2 | The Club House became Sir Barnes Wallis 's office , and part of the banking was removed to extend the runway , ending Brooklands ' use as a circuit forever . |
| 3 | It said it would also seek to ban the fungicides ' use on tomatoes , potatoes and bananas . |
| 4 | A second report on the same research study gives further information about clients ' use of the fund . |
| 5 | Controls on farmers ' use of nitrates would just be voluntary to start with , and legal limits would be imposed only if the voluntary controls turned out to be ineffective . |
| 6 | A good boat is provided , rather than a pre-historic canoe , and visitors ' use of a comfortable boathouse for shelter on wild days . |
| 7 | Secondly , we summarise what we know about managers ' use of external information in general ; there is an overwhelming preference for informal rather than formal information sources . |
| 8 | Managers ' use of external information |
| 9 | The first thing I had to learn was that my parents ' use of guilt was not for my benefit but for theirs . |
| 10 | A system of ‘ capital charges ’ to be introduced to reflect health authorities ' use of existing capital assets and any new capital investment . |
| 11 | Axeen rewrote the material that she used in her course ‘ Teaching the use of the library to undergraduates ’ in fourteen units of instruction , each requiring two hours ' use of the terminal . |
| 12 | But as closing time approached , staff became unhappy with the two defendants ' use of foul language . |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever the contribution of aggressive toys to children 's anti-social behaviour may be , ’ concludes Professor Goldstein , ‘ it is fairly minor compared to such factors as the parents ' use of aggression and their tolerance of their child 's aggression . ’ |
| 14 | It had been suggested that the Russians ' use of an ineligible player , Mikhail Rusayev , during the first and second rounds could open the door for the English club 's return , in the manner of Leeds ' dramatic European Cup reprieve . |
| 15 | In an industry in which stock is such a key issue , retailers ' use of electronic point of sale techniques is limited . |
| 16 | Gris ' use of sumptuous colour , delicate geometry and bold composition converge in romantic collages of musical instruments or table top still lives , and a closer look at his work belies his popular reputation as a cool logician . |
| 17 | Speakers ' use of creole varieties lie along a continuum , from varieties of creole which may well be incomprehensible to a speaker of Standard English , to varieties much closer to Standard English ; |
| 18 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 19 | While the fashion press continues to use a bourgeoise equation for good clothing — ‘ tasteful ’ , expensive fabric — the new designers ' use of ‘ cheap and nasty ’ fabrics and unorthodox technique takes the wearer even further away from the slick chic of the ‘ establishment ’ designers . |
| 20 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 21 | THE EVANGELISTS ' USE OF THE STORY |
| 22 | Although the Vatican City State abolished the death penalty for all offences in 1969 , there has never been an official statement from the Holy See condemning governments ' use of the death penalty . |
| 23 | Also forthcoming is Francis Haskell 's eagerly awaited History and its Images : Art and the Interpretation of the Past , the next chapter in his history of culture , this time through the examination of the historians ' use of visual images from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 24 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 26 | What is the relationship between companies ' use of large international headhunting firms compared with smaller , specialised consultancies ? |
| 27 | In All 's Well that Ends Well Parolles ' use of verse seems to have connotations of falseness , as when he relays to Helena the news that Bertram is leaving Rossillion without consummating their marriage . |
| 28 | From the Templars ' use of the Atbash Cipher , it is probable that some form of Nazarean or neo-Nazarean sect had continued to survive in the Middle East as late as the twelfth century , and had made its teachings available to the West . |
| 29 | The war ( September 1939–Armistice June 1940 ) and the Occupation ( 1940–June/August 1944 ) reinforced the authorities ' use of radio for propaganda ; radio , however , emerged from the war and Occupation in less disrepute than the press . |
| 30 | It has frequently been observed that many classroom interactions do not conform to the rules of normal conversation , and this applies particularly to teachers ' use of questions ( e.g. , Barnes , 1969 ; Stubbs , 1976 ; Edwards , 1980 ) . |