Example sentences of "is [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geriatric units are particularly vulnerable because treatment of UTIs tends to be long term and there is extensive use of indwelling urinary tract catheters . |
| 2 | Long-firm frauds are to be found in most western countries , and are liable to occur wherever there is extensive use of credit in business transactions . |
| 3 | While this may be acquired partly through acquiring delegated tasks it is little use choosing someone who feels totally inadequate when faced with new responsibilities . |
| 4 | It is little use allowing conditions to deteriorate for three months and then to conduct a total clean-out of the filter and a 100% water change . |
| 5 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 6 | It sounds impressive and the major advantage is that use of drugs is minimal , if at all . |
| 7 | One of the arguments for legalisation of cannabis or , for that matter , cocaine or heroin , is that use should be the free choice of the individual user . |
| 8 | A major piece of work is to make sure that the assessment processes do allow us to deal with er , people who are requiring specialist palliative care , not only at the hospice , but in the form of out-reach work , and one project that is proposed is some use of joint finance to help dovetail the work on assessment , er , from the Health Authority front with that provided by Social Services . |
| 9 | ‘ , I seem to be saying where I am only because there is another use of ‘ Here ’ , as for example in answer to ‘ Where 's the thimble ? ’ , in which I am saying where something is . |
| 10 | There is prominent use of parallelisms and counter-parallelisms . |
| 11 | There is widespread use of informal meetings , circulation of reports , notice board announcements , newsletters , in addition to the communication associated with committee structures and official correspondence . |
| 12 | Although there is not much use of frequencies above 20GHz , below 15GHz there is intensive use of traditional fixed service frequency bands . |
| 13 | It is also advisable to commission a space planner to review the accommodation to be sub-let and ensure that there is optimum use of the sub-let space with minimum loss to the existing accommodation . |
| 14 | Another idea is increased use of the gallery in Trinity Street , Colchester . |
| 15 | The techniques of investment appraisal adopted by these bodies are summarized in table 5.5 This shows there is increased use of discounting techniques and attempts at CBA . |
| 16 | On the whole , however , Face Pack offers a good variety of scalable fonts and is exceptional value for money especially where there is frequent use of DTP . |
| 17 | A third route to eliminating blanketweed is regular use of chemicals such as Clarosan , but this is a mild herbicide and will stunt or kill any aquatic plants you may have in your pond . |
| 18 | In addition , there is substantial use of mini or micro computers , word processors and other information processing or communication services . |
| 19 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 20 | So remote that a bargepole is more use to a traveller than a British Rail season ticket when the London train breaks down . |
| 21 | Indeed , one could say that the latter without the former is more use to the game of Trivial Pursuit than it is to science . |
| 22 | Erm , well yeah I 've learnt that my wife is more use than just in the kitchen . |
| 23 | There is growing use of research consultants by executive search firms , but how they are used shows vast differences between the major firms . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Creole use begins much earlier for some children ; Hewitt observes that there is less use of Creole in primary schools than in secondary schools , but that it is not absent altogether . |
| 25 | There is increasing use of the mother tongue or local ‘ language of the market place ’ , as a medium of instruction , particularly in lower classes and consequently a movement , albeit slow and tentative , towards the development of a body of expertise in curriculum development and materials production in the mother tongue . |
| 26 | All is drawn in variously diluted glaze , and there is increasing use of washes of colour . |
| 27 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 28 | Alternatively , is any use made of elegant variation — the avoidance of repetition by the substitution of a descriptive phrase ( as , for example , " the old lawyer " or " her uncle " may substitute for the repetition of an earlier " Mr Jones " ) ? |
| 29 | If this is any use to you you are very welcome to it , as I have another . |