Example sentences of "to use [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Anything you might be able to use for escaping ? ’
2 Moreover , section 40 ( as amended by the 1989 Act ) enables a company , which has a common seal , instead to use for sealing documents evidencing securities , an ‘ official ’ seal which is the replica of its common seal with the addition of the word ‘ Securities . ’
3 Materials to use for learning through play
4 Such access , which is limited to one byte at a time , is sufficient for setting and reading screen locations or " flags " , but it is difficult to use for building more complicated data structures .
5 We follow Hill in using the elastic constants K ( bulk modulus ) and G the shear modulus as the best pair to use for discussing isotropic materials .
6 Start saving newspapers to use for wrapping china .
7 Normally , banks are unwilling to use their funds for financing enterprises in other republics and provinces , but it seems that in this case the banks in the more prosperous parts of Yugoslavia had funds in excess of the amounts they were permitted to use for giving credits to their own customers ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) .
8 Multiply the length by 2.7 using a pocket calculator and that gives the number of needles to use for seaming .
9 This is the area to use for designing the Deco cards .
10 Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process .
11 Malcolm also made that contact when he and Bernie went on a trip up north , searching round textile factories for old fifties cloth to use for making up zoot suits .
12 Many of those authorities also have land available which they are able to use with housing associations to provide new build , but they would not have been able to do so had not this Government been in power .
13 The way that the rotation of the Earth is put to use in reversing the torque is a key feature .
14 The RRR is the ex post return ( 5 per cent ) which each industry has to use in appraising its capital programme in entirety , taking into account non-revenue-earning items as well as direct revenue earners — this provides the guidelines for the investment programme .
15 He had thrown in the idea that accelerated freeze drying might be a good process to use in drying out books without damage .
16 If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart .
17 The chlorophyll traps are left temporarily positively charged a ( so making them chemically highly reactive ) while the electrons are put to use in synthesising NADPH and ATP on the other side of the membrane .
18 I now want to talk about two or three of the mechanisms and techniques we hope to be able to use in implementing changes when things are n't necessarily to your liking .
19 ‘ Boring ’ is a convenient portmanteau word for adolescents to use in describing anything they find alien or frightening .
20 I would suggest that this exercise involves two stages — firstly defining those aspects of transport services which should be covered by such an audit , and secondly , attempting to devise measurable indicators which are appropriate to use in describing to what extent transport services meet aspirations in each area .
21 Reports are subsequently produced for library staff to use in updating its student borrower records , for example , to enable a close watch to be kept on student withdrawals to encourage the return of books .
22 Jot down quickly ( in about five minutes ) the key ideas , concepts , authors , theories , etc. , that you intend to use in answering the question .
23 He is also a patron of the applied arts , putting his educated eyes to use in finding and buying contemporary work as well as collecting from the past .
24 The first is a simple logical point that without some model of how the system might work , there is no way of deciding which of the millions of possible stimuli available to use in testing a particular celt .
25 There were several possible replies to that , but Jehan discarded all of them because they were impossible to use without appearing to slight her motives .
26 Thomas Wilcox could hardly believe his good fortune and immediately put Midland 's money to use by expanding Crocker 's lending at a phenomenal rate .
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