Example sentences of "use [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I did n't make a loss but I did n't make a profit on the bit of space that I need that I was using for storage cos I thought it was only fair to the poor bloke . |
| 2 | The kind of these are the kind of things that we 're using for drink . |
| 3 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 4 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 5 | The aim is to reach , using for example metropolitan area clusters , as many institutions as possible in a short timescale . |
| 6 | Using for effect : |
| 7 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 8 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 9 | Bitov went to Venice in 1983 for the KGB , using as cover his work for the Literary Gazette , and then approached the British asking for asylum . |
| 10 | Age standardised incidence figures were calculated by direct standardisation , using as reference the world standard population . |
| 11 | Lily bulbs benefit from improved drainage and need cool roots , so using as spot plantings amongst other perennial plants and shrubs is ideal . |
| 12 | I have a great deal of essential data on infant behavior that I am using as control material . |
| 13 | It may also be observed that the transformation ( 12.1 ) can be used to obtain the soliton solution of Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1987 b ) described in Section 10.4 , using as seed the Khan Penrose solution . |
| 14 | The Ferrari-Ibañez-Bruni solution has been obtained using as seed the Kasner metric . |
| 15 | Table 6.6 shows group scores for ( o ) in Braniel and Andersonstown , calculated for each variant according to following environment , using as input data of the kind shown in table 6.4 . |
| 16 | An EMBL3 S.solfataricus DNA genomic library ( 4 ) was screened using as probe a 20 mer oligonucleotide derived from the amino acid sequence of a segment of purified aEF-1α . |
| 17 | If a copy of ‘ If ’ ever existed at Anfield , however , it was probably long ago used as loo paper , judging by the bad-tempered reaction of manager Graeme Souness to defeat . |
| 18 | Coal dust should be collected up into strong brown bags , dampened down and used as coal . |
| 19 | Cakeboards ( 12in ) used as place mats , 85p each , from Divertimenti . |
| 20 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 21 | Bakker was convicted of swindling followers of his Praise the Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) , some of which he used as hush money for his mistress , Jessica Hahn . |
| 22 | The southern king crab seems to prefer dolphin meat to other kinds of flesh also used for bait , such as sea lion , penguin , fur seals and cormorant . |
| 23 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 24 | This patient was sensitive to yeast and reacted to it in very small amounts , so that she produced a positive reaction even with the minute quantities that they used for testing . |
| 25 | Into those crates would go clothes , shoes , the occasional toy , school books , Captain and Mrs Burrows ' books which they used for sermon preparation , a typewriter and the musical instruments . |
| 26 | Peppermint , M. x piperita , needs no description as to smell , but the leaves of black peppermint tend to be ovate , 6cm ( 2½in ) long and 4cm ( 1½in ) wide , and are purple tinged — this is grown commercially and is the one used for peppermint tea , so popular in North Africa , Pineapple mint , M. rotundifolia " Variegata " , is a form of the round-leaved mint , which often crosses with M. longifolia . |
| 27 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |
| 28 | The flavour and aroma of sweet marjoram , although characteristically a marjoram , is appreciably different , and a third , pot marjoram ( O. onites ) , also used for cooking , has the advantage that it is a hardy perennial , though its flavour is much less attractive than that of the other two . |
| 29 | He said that it should not be regarded as a luxury but used for education , rural development and economic reform : the time had come , he said , ‘ for television to change its outlook in this country in order to suit the requirements of a developing country like Zambia ’ . |
| 30 | The view that has found favour amongst those involved with Earth Mysteries , and one which seems to spring out of the page when these legends are brought together , is that most folklore associated with ancient sites can best be interpreted in terms of the survival of the old pagan religion and , one of its wellsprings , the existence of some form of energy which the ancient people were sensitive to and which they used for healing and in their rituals . |