Example sentences of "[coord] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 4 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 5 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 6 | UNF The media unit name specified does not exist and , therefore , can not be assigned or used for offline . |
| 7 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 8 | Certain information is not compatible with the psychology of the masses ‘ lest it be trampled asunder ’ , abused , ridiculed by sceptics or used towards destructive ends . |
| 9 | Pre-cut panels of mirrors sold for hanging on wardrobe or cupboard doors are often surprisingly cheap compared to custom-cut pieces and they can be hung side by side or used in certain places to look like slit windows in a wall . |
| 10 | These are words to avoid having to use , or to use with great caution . |
| 11 | Use in oriental-style dishes and sprinkle it over meat before grilling it or use to liven up leftover boiled rice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's just that erm the I S O version , as you quite rightly say , is sort of recognized and used in other countries . |
| 19 | Further practical experiences with space and shape may be gained through play with junk boxes and other materials large enough for the children to sit in and use in imaginative play as trains or cars . |
| 20 | The process of reconciliation of budget costs and actual costsprovides invaluable data so that standardized costs may be developed and used on comparable activities and projects in the future . |
| 21 | However , if these items are made up into attractive dishes they can be photographed and used to good effect with features on " Supper Dishes with Soup " or " Crunchy Toppings ' . |
| 22 | The River frontage would also be exploited and used to good effect creating a pleasant ‘ shopping experience ’ , possibly even encouraging tourists into the area . |
| 23 | The language had to be learnt and used with great accuracy , because there was very little tolerance for error . |
| 24 | One point worth mentioning is that the carrying system may be completely detached from the sack and used with other sacks in the range which are available separately without the back system . |
| 25 | Fragments from these cDNAs and unique oligonucleotides were radiolabelled and used for probing cDNA libraries constructed in the λ Zap II vector ( Stratagene ) by standard techniques , or were purchased from Clonetech and Stratagene . |
| 26 | Later still , it may be dissociated from this role and used for general storage , in which case its previous specific symbolic role is ignored , and it is no longer of consequence whether its ritual status accords with that of its contents ( Miller 1985 : 172–83 ) . |
| 27 | After serving its purpose it is returned to the advance reservation section and used for additional future reservations . |
| 28 | Since a share is a financial claim on the firm 's real wealth in the form of its physical assets , the economic earnings of a share are defined as the maximum amount of real resources that can be withdrawn from the share and used for real consumption without impairing the ability of the share to deliver real consumption in the future . |
| 29 | Robert Pavlita , the Czech inventor of Psychotronic Generators , has given scientific proof of how psychic energy can be stored in material objects and used for various purposes . |
| 30 | A general term for cheap , soft alloys usually lead or copper based and used for simple castings . |