Example sentences of "which [pron] [is] use " in BNC.

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1 It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti .
2 This provides for a supply of very good quality water to the main river , which itself is used as potable supply .
3 Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick .
4 In addition , various situational factors influence pronunciation , such as the social relationship between speaker and hearer , whether one is speaking publicly or privately and the purposes for which one is using language .
5 In reality , just as the user could n't care less what language a piece of software was written in , it does n't matter which one is used by the desktop publishing program .
6 Either of the two alternative pathways will do the job , and it does n't matter which one is used .
7 In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices .
8 This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman .
9 Dutch water , gas and electricity distributor , Energie Delfland NV , Delft , has signed for UK , Cambridge-based Smallworld Systems Ltd 's geographical information system which it is to use for its Atlas project management and distribution system running on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations .
10 In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect .
11 However some of the most expressive movements are made by the head because the way in which it is used can draw attention to the look on the face .
12 In fact , the sound alone does not convey the full idea , but the context in which it is used .
13 Its intensity usually expresses its importance , and the context in which it is used ( commonly in association with body language ) gives its meaning .
14 Central features of the new system are ( a ) land improvement and ( b ) the way in which it is used .
15 Manipulation can be considered good or bad depending on the context in which it is used .
16 Only a few firms have won manufacturing licences because , unless the tape is of very high quality , it will produce poor pictures and damage the machines in which it is used .
17 Typically , the notion of ethnic enterprise may be useful or dangerous , depending on the context in which it is used .
18 Rather he is a participant in a form of life and the meaning of Truth for him is made apparent from the way in which it is used in that form of life .
19 Think of ways in which it is used , in conjunction with another word or words .
20 He defines such sociological groupings as ‘ homogeneous units ’ , which he admits ‘ is an elastic concept , its meaning depending on the context in which it is used ’ ( McGavran 1970:86 ) .
21 Why should I say the ‘ expression ’ derives its meaning from the feeling behind it — and not from the circumstances of the language game in which it is used ?
22 In this view , the social scientist produces neutral science and takes no responsibility for the ways in which it is used .
23 The second vote has the same unitary value for every voter : its potential does not vary with the magnitude of the constituency in which it is used .
24 Currently the main cases for which it is used are :
25 The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity .
26 It all comes back to the question of what meaning is to be given to the definition of ‘ company ’ in the context in which it is used ?
27 The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence .
28 It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) .
29 We know that the volume of financial intermediation in an economy could have an effect upon aggregate demand by changing the quantity of money in circulation or the ‘ velocity ’ with which it is used or both .
30 Here , we shall provisionally assume that whenever an adjective , e.g. long , is used , there is in the world which the speaker postulates ( if only for the sake of discussion ) some entity of which it is used , directly or indirectly .
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