Example sentences of "use a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used a Granger causality test to examine whether futures volatility leads spot volatility , or vice versa , and concluded that there is no systematic pattern . |
| 2 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel to put out a blaze in a garage in Nicholson Way , Hartlepool . |
| 3 | In the assault , Courtney used a sex aid on the girl , then forced her to touch him intimately . |
| 4 | So , in the next elders meeting we used a management technique , brainstormers think the say what you think . |
| 5 | A schoolfriend helped the youngster back to his feet and used a drinking straw to push the live wire from the side of the bridge . |
| 6 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 7 | To get the men up in the morning , alarm clocks at this time being unknown , the Works in 1873 used a steam whistle . |
| 8 | A 34-year-old woman died after being gunned down as she used a phone box . |
| 9 | Gorman was trapped on video at a store as he used a credit card owned by one of his victims , said police . |
| 10 | You ever used a Lotus manual ? |
| 11 | To overcome this problem we used a DNA extraction procedure with guanidinium thiocyanate and diatom particles to purify the DNA . |
| 12 | During the 1989 and 1990 growing seasons , we used a microvideo camera to record monthly images of fine root cohorts growing along the exterior surfaces of 12 minirhizotrons ( clear plastic tubes ) located in each forest . |
| 13 | In the case of the strong T7A1 promoter , the specific activity of the labelled DNA fragment was not high enough to directly determine the dissociation constants for the promoter ; we used a competition assay with the lac UV5 promoter , hence the large errors associated with the values presented in Table I. |
| 14 | In Waites [ 1982 ] Crim LR 369 ( CA ) the accused used a cheque guarantee card . |
| 15 | The masses of the jovian planets are now known accurately from the Voyager missions , but in the past they were not , and much of the speculation on Planet X has been based on residuals from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's ephemeris DE200 and it predecessors , which used a Neptune mass in error by 0.5 per cent . |
| 16 | They used a machine gun to tell us so . ’ |
| 17 | If you used a hardwood sill , you could fix draught-strip to it instead of the door . |
| 18 | Workmen used a sand blaster from a hydraulic platform . |
| 19 | But they are — ’ Suragai used a word Burun did not understand , then corrected himself , ‘ — imaginary . |
| 20 | The students used a word processing program for the questionnaire . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , it used a back entrance to the den and disappeared from view . |
| 22 | As well as the colour washes I used a gutta nib to apply waterproof clack ink and Quink ink , which is non-waterproof . |
| 23 | The company , Altovar Limited , makes varnish , which ignited after a worker used a blow torch to try to unblock a pipe . |
| 24 | ‘ We used a motocross park at Dartford for Michael to get some experience , ’ said stunt arranger Val Musetti . |
| 25 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 26 | The first time Rick used a push hoe , he hoed out ¼ acre of Sweet William . |
| 27 | The former teenybop idol , now 37 , has found fame in Japan after car giants Mitsubishi used a Bay City Roller tune for a TV ad . |
| 28 | The supply branch computing specialists used a help desk expert system at the Supply Control Centre several years ago when a new unit supply system was installed on a large number of RAF stations . |
| 29 | David Barron graduated the sides and back and used a gel setting technique to give Kerry this pretty day style . |
| 30 | A SEVENTEEN-year-old youth who used a stone flowerpot to smash front windows of three cars parked in Holybourne on the night of January 10th , woke nearby residents with the noise . |