Example sentences of "[vb past] use of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirkendall 's 1980 survey on current trends in library use education found that , in 1979 , only 18 libraries out of 830 completing the LOEX questionnaire , made use of CAI in their education programmes . |
| 2 | But he also made use of tunes from bourgeois sources — and transformed their meanings in the process . |
| 3 | The mammoth hunters of Mezine and Sunghir made use of sections of mammoth tusk to carve penannular bracelets perforated at either end to engage thongs which could be pulled tight when the wearer was actively engaged . |
| 4 | At Dunadd the carvers made use of fissures in the rock itself as their base line . |
| 5 | The Dutch did so in the East Indies , and all the European nations in Africa made use of chiefs to some extent . |
| 6 | David Clarke suggested use of resources over a very wide area by the lake village at Glastonbury in the Iron Age , and John Coles suggests that the pattern of land use in the Levels shown by Michael Williams for the medieval period probably has a prehistoric ancestry . |
| 7 | Use of more than one line to steer a kite dates back as far as the 1820s when George Peacock pioneered use of kites for traction of carriages and a boat.He utilised variable tension on two lines to elevate or depress peg-top kites successfully enough to transport as many as 16 lads to a cricket match , including his grandson , W.G.Grace the famous cricketer . |