Example sentences of "which we use [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other predicates which we use to describe the game are empty(x) which signifies that the square x is empty ; filled ( x , C ) where x is a square and C is a player ; to-move(C) which is true if it is C's turn to play ; win(C) which is short for the formula |
| 2 | Your appraisal will include an overall performance mark , which we use to decide on increases in your pay for the following year . |
| 3 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 4 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 5 | One of the oddest features of human history is the way in which we use randomizing devices — the fall of dice , cards , or millet sticks , the tea-leaves in the bottom of a cup , the cracks in a scapula thrown on the fire — to foretell the future . |
| 6 | The things in the ‘ outside world ’ which we use to embody or give a shape to our feelings are our metaphors . |
| 7 | The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability . |
| 8 | It is not necessary to purge the political and academic language which we use to think about the inner city , only to be aware of its contingent value . |
| 9 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 10 | The resulting argument is typical of that current in post-structuralism ( e.g. Sturrock ed. 1979 ) ; that is , we think we create objects in history which we use to communicate/signify/represent/constitute , but actually today there is simply a world of objects in terms of which our notions of self and society are created . |
| 11 | The natural celluloses which we use include a very large number of timbers , bamboo , cane , flax , hemp , cotton , ramie , sisal , esparto and so on . |
| 12 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |