Example sentences of "[noun sg] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Again , these misconceptions are important , because the ‘ common origin' idea is the basis for some forms of therapy used with chemical sensitive patients .
2 Another said Weizenbier was a term used by ignorant Franconians ( to the north ) .
3 Nor are mentally disordered people ‘ consumers ’ in the sense of the term used by retail and other service industries .
4 It was a term used by common soldiers — men who had shared a tent , a bowl of meat , or the last of the wine .
5 ‘ Informal carers ’ is the term used in official documents to describe close supporting relatives though it is not a good term ‘ informal ’ implies that the task is done by choice in a rather casual fashion , which is rarely the case , and ‘ carer ’ implies an embracing emotional commitment which may be wholly inaccurate .
6 This is the opposite extreme to the views that it is mere " myth " — a term used in varying ways , and notoriously hard to define exactly .
7 ‘ Bluffing ’ is thus an indexical term used in different ways by Easton 's section police .
8 A term used in notional English syllabuses to categorise concepts , eg abuse , comparison , distance , motion , solicitude , termination , urge , value , weight , wish .
9 opaque material or masking tape used to block-off an area of the artwork .
10 The first Carolingian king , Pippin I , in 754/5 had specified " concerning the mint , that of each pound of silver , not more than 22 solidi were to be minted , of which one must go to the moneyer and the rest to the lord [ king ] " : since the account pound used in normal business reckoning contained 20 solidi , Pippin was in effect decreeing a royal mint charge of 1 solidus , i.e. 5 per cent .
11 They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications .
12 Since logical values are manipulated in the accumulator used for fixed-point binary arithmetic , no separate load and store instructions are required .
13 Here the idle-up facility will be used to set the model up for aerobatics and the normal throttle action used for general flying .
14 The form of astrolabe used in medieval Europe , however , was derived from the Muslim type found in Spain .
15 In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse .
16 Gelsemium would thus seem to be an appropriate choice of remedy to use in neurological experiments .
17 In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars .
18 Whatever measures are derived from a structured task , we are still likely to be left wondering how they relate to the language the child uses in everyday settings and it is to a consideration of procedures for sampling naturalistic language production that we now turn .
19 Large hall used for public meetings , with seating for around 150 people , and a small hall used for exhibition .
20 Yet clinical ecology has been severely criticised in the High Court and castigated by the Royal College of Physicians and the American College of Physicians ; and the provocation testing used by clinical ecologists has been shown by a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine to be unscientific .
21 They may be very basic , as in the beer line cleaning equipment used in licensed premises , or highly sophisticated fully automatic computer monitored and controlled .
22 This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses .
23 The aim of the project was to identify the types of marble used for specific functions and to associate unidentified fragments with known parts of the building .
24 It may also involve working with the whole family or family network including all carers , using the techniques of family work used in other social work contexts .
25 Small , 3kW to 6kW , instantaneous electric water heaters , similar to the type used for electric showers , can be used over a sink or basin .
26 Up to 1973 nearly all the fast growing services were of the type used by other industries .
27 Sovereignty used by authoritarian regimes to hide abuse of men , women and children is already condemned by history ’ .
28 In the early period the death 's head was the predominant motif used in churchyard-based cemeteries , in which by no means every individual received a grave marker .
29 Types of question used in personal selling
30 These were described as artefacts and clothing used in Christian worship and devotions , such as the broken cross , and Mr Mackenzie 's funeral cloak .
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