Example sentences of "use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Ministers said on May 26 that " certain levels " of the movement were " using for political purposes … working people 's fair economic demands " . |
| 2 | The railway lines define the neighbourhood all right : Railway Hotel on the corner that the Council 's started using for temporary accommodation for other single mothers not so lucky as she , as the social worker kept telling her ; Railway Cafe opposite the launderette with coloured transfers on the window and a goldfish tank next to the curry puffs and ketchup bottles . |
| 3 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 4 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 5 | Differentiating the factor market equations ( 7–25 ) , where , denote the proportion of total labour and capital used as fixed cost inputs ( and those in variable inputs ) . |
| 6 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 7 | The second sample is a simple border produced from the holly and Teddy 's head used as continuous repeats . |
| 8 | 5 ) The main priority was to develop databases which could be shared between members of the group and used as introductory material for school librarians who had newly acquired microcomputers . |
| 9 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 10 | The sequence of the P4 exon used as reverse primer is highly conserved in human , mouse , and bovine cDNA ( 5 , 6 , 12 ) . |
| 11 | Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars . |
| 12 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 13 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |
| 14 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 16 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 17 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 18 | The Poles replied that the design was based on a painting by the Dutch artist Van Der Block dating from about 1608 , that the original painting hung in the Danzig Main Town Hall in a room which the Nazis used for frequent social and political meetings . |
| 19 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 20 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 21 | Currently dedicated to microgravity flight experiments , but also used for atmospheric studies and pressure standards calibrations , the CT-133 is one of a small fleet of aircraft based at the NRC Headquarters at Ottawa International Airport . |
| 22 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
| 23 | Beneath the third was a vast treasure which the emperor then used for charitable purposes . |
| 24 | Display Input/Output Facility ( IOS3270 ) used for full screen interactions with lexicographers |
| 25 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
| 26 | For example , Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties . |
| 27 | During the successive rounds of these twin controversies Baldwin used with remarkable freedom the House of Commons as well as public platforms to carry on the debate within his own party . |
| 28 | It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades . |
| 29 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 30 | In other words , this approach uses a concept of industrial change which is broader than that used in long-wave theory . |