Example sentences of "use [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first major chapter of the document contains a discussion of various types of rationale that teachers could use for thinking about the curriculum . |
| 2 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 3 | That your mum would use for heating the water up |
| 4 | Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more . |
| 5 | It always gives you another number another counting number that you could use for counting your pennies . |
| 6 | Quite a big book that I could use for doing me homework . |
| 7 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 8 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 9 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 10 | ( b ) Which source of information would you use of find the following : |
| 11 | What accessories or trimmings might you use in displaying the following goods : |
| 12 | In dealing with children she follows the same general rules as she would use in dealing with their parents … |
| 13 | Styled is the concept we shall use in exploring the nature of stylistic value , as a basis for understanding the detailed workings of stylistic effect ( see Ch 4 ) . |
| 14 | They represent optional cues which writers and speakers may use in organising what they want to communicate . |
| 15 | We have published guidance which every Department must use in assessing the environmental impact of its policies and programmes . |
| 16 | These are the three levels that we will use in describing English stress . |
| 17 | The context determines what materials we can use in justifying a choice and the standards to which appeal will be made . |
| 18 | Formative , in providing information which teachers can use in deciding how a pupil 's learning should be taken forward and in giving the pupils themselves clear and understandable targets and feedback about their achievement . |
| 19 | We 're talking about weapons neither of us could use without destroying ourselves and probably our whole planet . |
| 20 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |