Example sentences of "use of [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This symbolic import of bodily hair in a novel about Los Angeles policemen is mirrored in the Force Orders of most British police forces and is part of an overarching use of bodily order and control as a marker of police purity . |
| 2 | Pupils should therefore be encouraged to reflect on and evaluate their use of spoken language and to reformulate it to help the listener ; |
| 3 | The final design is a compromise made between maximising the use of real memory and minimising the disk operations to retrieve pages from virtual memory . |
| 4 | True , the report 's authors criticise the EC 's trigger-happy use of anti-dumping rules and say there remains a risk that the Community will drift into a European trade zone built around special agreements with the EFTA countries and Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | Card Creator is a run of the mill greeting card maker , but other than the normal borders , clip art and messages it allows use of freehand drawing and writing to personalise the cards . |
| 6 | It is developed by the use of specific learning and teaching modes such as integrated practical packages , group work , case studies and workshop sessions . |
| 7 | Glib statements about the use of prime movers and changing the reward system conceal the considerable difficulties often involved in doing just that . |
| 8 | Such an analogue might block the normal use of folic acid and cause intractable and fatal anaemia , so it would be a hazardous substance to try . |
| 9 | Goldstein and Cuttance have argued that the use of average scores as advocated by the Task Group is meaningless and unfair to schools in deprived areas . |
| 10 | He argued that not only did the technology bring safer products , but it could cut the number of chemical steps in production , and simplify the manufacturing process , lead to more effective use of chemical plant and improve return on capital investment . |
| 11 | The sixth round of Indo-Pakistan talks at foreign secretary level , held in New Delhi on Aug. 17-19 , culminated in the signing of two agreements banning the use of chemical weapons and establishing a code of conduct for diplomats in the two countries . |
| 12 | Zeta also provided a major stimulus in diagnostic development : for example , the use of infrared emission and scattering techniques ; and in engineering techniques , for example the use of a continuous stainless-steel bellows vacuum chamber . |
| 13 | WACC should promote the use of inclusive language and endeavour to unmask the patriarchal cultural patterns that maintain this bias . |
| 14 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 15 | As much as possible of this finishing was assembled by the use of compressed air and screw cramps , the picture frames and corridor doors being examples of this method of working . |
| 16 | Stevenson is also anxious that we should not dismiss with contempt the more completely non-rational aspects of ethical discussion in which we affect each other 's ethical attitudes by the use of emotive language or influence each other 's emotions in other ways which do not require the mediation of rationally based changes in belief . |
| 17 | True navigation is not just a matter of finding the way home from a familiar starting point , which can be achieved ( as by the digger wasp ) with the use of memorized landmarks and learned orientations to them . |
| 18 | It had agreed there would not be any compulsory redundancies as a result of the use of outside contractors and had guaranteed a more secure future for thousands of workshop staff . |
| 19 | Slacker is very funny indeed and highly innovative in its use of roving camera and juxtaposing various disparate conversations . |
| 20 | It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage . |
| 21 | It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage . |
| 22 | Very noteworthy was the imaginative decision to give help and advice to those schools which had shown by their own efforts that their thinking and planning had reached a stage where they were ready to make more effective use of innovative methods and resource materials . |
| 23 | I would sooner lose the use of both legs than read it . |
| 24 | It has raised water rates , adopted new restrictions on lawn-watering and landscaping , insisted on the use of low-flush toilets and halted the building of artificial lakes . |
| 25 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 26 | The overall statistics indicate that this year Mayfest will feature 153 companies or individuals , 31 exhibitions , 11 films , making use of 84 venues and producing a total of 547 events . |
| 27 | The possession of a car enables them to maintain social contacts with their friends elsewhere , and if necessary , to make use of urban amenities while living in the countryside . |
| 28 | It condemned the use of secret trials and accused the government of refusing to allow the free expression of opposition views . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’ |
| 30 | The establishment of proper boundaries is clearly at issue in the use of linguistic structures that have the capacity to found a noman 's land between proper meanings and bounded territories , creating a zone of ambiguity . |