Example sentences of "of the use [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 There is more widespread acceptance of the use of institutions in the later stages of life in the USA , Canada and Australia , and a considerable body of literature of the ways in which social workers can assist families and their elders to cope with the experience .
2 The history of the use of herbs in food is naturally bound up with the history of food itself .
3 This is not the only model to produce a close fit and in conclusion it seems that Lavery 's ( 1975 , 198 ) assessment of the use of models in forecasting recreation demand is still very relevant for the mid to late 1980s :
4 There was much criticism of the use of conscripts in such exercises as the Chernobyl clean-up operation and peacekeeping duties in areas of ethnic unrest .
5 Where , in fact , are we to look for the major effects of the use of computers in humanities research ?
6 One of the more interesting aspects of the use of computers in education is their potential for involving children in problem-solving activities .
7 They also study simulations of the use of computers in applications such as shops , libraries , airlines , police records , etc .
8 The first of the case studies we describe is of the use of robots in a West German factory and gives strong support to the de-skilling hypothesis described in the previous chapter .
9 The larger charities — which have recently formed a group known as Research for Health Charities to respond to criticism of the use of animals in experiments — also feel that Wolfson 's stand undermines their attempts to establish a united front .
10 The second example of the use of cats in warfare appears much later , being illustrated in Christopher of Hapsburg 's book in the year 1535 .
11 Werking 's 1980 review of the state of the art with regard to evaluation provides an up-to-date account of the use of tests in library user education .
12 In June 1989 , delegations from Japan , Taiwan , and South Korea attended a meeting of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency ( FFA ) , to discuss the effects of the rapid expansion of the use of drift-nets in the region .
13 For example , in 1980 in the Metropolitan police district there were fewer than 2,000 cases of the use of knives in offences of violence against the person and 1,240 cases where knives were used in robberies .
14 By 1987 , those figures had shot up to 2,870 cases of the use of knives in offences against the person and 4,630 cases where they were used in robberies — a huge increase .
15 They want to see the elimination of the use of knives in crimes of violence , but their approach is that the law is adequate to deal with the problem and that nothing needs to be changed .
16 I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) on his success in securing this debate and thank him for raising the disturbing and important question of the use of knives in crime .
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