Example sentences of "and use [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In a society dominated by consumerism , every buying choice we make is a political act — by choosing to buy environmentally-friendly cleaning fluids and powders , avoiding aerosols and using lead-free petrol , we are not only minimizing our own impact on the environment but also registering a protest .
2 However , success in recruiting and using lay clerks to best effect depends largely upon the energy and personality of the cathedral organist .
3 And in escaping from the world to remote places and using lay brothers to find a vocation in tilling the soil , the Order was soon transformed into a wealthy economic organization .
4 The final chapter describes 57 actual procedures for preparing and using various oxidation reagents , and the emphasis is very much on the synthetic usefulness of the reactions rather than on their mechanisms .
5 Removing all I can with a salt bath , and using various propriety parasite treatments have had no effect , the leeches just keep coming back .
6 In addition to selling paintings through different galleries and open exhibitions and using various publicity devices to attract private commissions , another good way of selling a quantity of work is by having a solo exhibition .
7 Guide Hugo around the various locations talking to other characters and using various objects on your way through the game .
8 The team then calculated the costs , both in money and CO 2 , of each energy mix at three different levels of efficiency : efficiency improved only by market forces , adoption of all commercially available efficient technology , and using efficient technology now in the planning stage .
9 In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain .
10 Reducing the brush bow strips to just less than in allows then to be bent without steam , and using dry wood allows the use of epoxy rather than Cascamite , retaining adequate strength despite the thinner strips .
11 Unfortunately , much traditional language teaching , in its zeal for practising verb tenses and using new vocabulary , has concentrated exclusively on longer forms ( Answer with a full sentence please . ! )
12 Reuter , who was naturalized in 1857 , energetically expanded and developed his agency , showing a keen appreciation of the value of exclusive news ‘ beats ’ and using new cables whenever he could .
13 Overall the project aims to contribute to the understanding of structural solutions devised by firms to manage the uncertainties and risks which they face in purchasing and using new technologies .
14 Mr Meehan denied making threats to kill and using unlawful violence .
15 Additions can be made during the lesson by using permanent ink for the diagrams and using water-soluble pens for labels , which can be washed off later .
16 Young children 's natural curiosity and need to investigate the things around them , will lend itself to historical work investigating historical artefacts and simple historical evidence , and using oral history , asking questions of older members of the community .
17 And therefore I believe it 's worth making the effort to use non-sexist language , because no one notices , and using sexist language may just offend and put off one or two .
18 At the hearing he also raised claims about her being absent from work and using foul language to residents .
19 But even reducing the frame rate and using partial screen displays , still does not solve the problem .
20 learn how to save energy by minimizing unnecessary actions and using essential ones in the correct way .
21 The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation , with real soldiers , real weapons and using real resources .
22 As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information .
23 Whether the Minister likes it or not , we must be prepared to face such competition , because major European contractors are already in Britain , winning contracts and using skilled labour from their own countries in which there is better investment .
24 In 1878 Frobenius showed that relinquishing the commutative law of multiplication adds only the quaternions to the list , and using algebraic topology Bott , Milnor and Kervaire showed , in 1957 , that relinquishing in addition the associative law adds only the Cayley numbers .
25 As indicated earlier in the text , this assessment would be achieved by various means such as observing the person ; acquiring information about the person 's usual habits in relation to this AL partly by asking appropriate questions , partly by listening to the patient and/or relatives ; and using relevant information from available records , including medical records .
26 Information skills in relation to computerized information retrieval are developed within the following framework information awareness and the information cycle of selecting , processing and communicating information computer awareness : the difference between databases and datafiles information needs awareness : the articulation of purpose information source awareness : identifying , selecting and using relevant sources of information which encompasses the multi-level cognitive skills of analysis , negotiation , interpretation and synthesis .
27 At a domestic level , fire can be prevented by maintaining equipment in a safe working condition , for example repairing frayed flexes , avoiding trailing flexes , ensuring that electrical circuits are not overloaded , having fires adequately guarded , and using self-extinguishing devices for movable articles which can be knocked over with relative ease such as oil lamps and oil-heaters .
28 Lack of understanding of decimal place value , combined with limited knowledge of the sizes of measuring units in both Imperial and metric systems contribute to pupils ' problems in reading and using measuring instruments with a scale .
29 He thought that architects should design for the new life style which was to arise , and design " for service " , making economical and logical use of space and using mechanical devices in order to provide comfort and to make housework pleasant by lightening the time and effort spent doing it ( 1934 p 32 ) .
30 Perhaps more significant is the fact that SEN-related roles were more prominent in Phase 1 schools than in Phase 3 , and using extra staff to cover for others was a more common use in Phase 3 than in Phase 1 .
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