Example sentences of "use [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The railway lines define the neighbourhood all right : Railway Hotel on the corner that the Council 's started using for temporary accommodation for other single mothers not so lucky as she , as the social worker kept telling her ; Railway Cafe opposite the launderette with coloured transfers on the window and a goldfish tank next to the curry puffs and ketchup bottles . |
| 2 | Differentiating the factor market equations ( 7–25 ) , where , denote the proportion of total labour and capital used as fixed cost inputs ( and those in variable inputs ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 5 | The sequence of the P4 exon used as reverse primer is highly conserved in human , mouse , and bovine cDNA ( 5 , 6 , 12 ) . |
| 6 | Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 9 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 10 | Display Input/Output Facility ( IOS3270 ) used for full screen interactions with lexicographers |
| 11 | During the successive rounds of these twin controversies Baldwin used with remarkable freedom the House of Commons as well as public platforms to carry on the debate within his own party . |
| 12 | It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades . |
| 13 | In other words , this approach uses a concept of industrial change which is broader than that used in long-wave theory . |
| 14 | Though never used in wet snow ( in short supply last winter ) a wet day on Pennine peat is a fair substitute and I stayed bone dry , as expected |
| 15 | Furthermore , the number of different sounds ( phonemes ) used in English speech is greater than the number of letters used in handwriting , adding further complexity to the recognition of speech . |
| 16 | Men cherished a tremendous sense of nostalgia for the departed glories of the previous temple , and for the Spirit of Yahweh which used in Old Testament days to be displayed in mighty deliverers and inspired prophets . |
| 17 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 18 | Charles adopted a cutting tone which he considered he used to great effect in the final stages of an argument . |
| 19 | One of Beecher 's favourite oratorical gimmicks , which he used to great effect in England , was to lean down from the dais to tell a humorous story but only audible to the front row . |
| 20 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 21 | A glance at the map on p. xii will show that the enlarged Aquitaine which the English had to defend had very long frontiers , vulnerable to small mobile forces which the French now used to excellent effect . |
| 22 | It seemed a shame to cancel the celebrations : children in the Borough were allowed free riding on Coronation Day , which they used to full advantage ! |
| 23 | The spatial query language tools which a GIS uses for general interaction with spatial data and for the elucidation of spatial relationships have also been the subject of recent research ( Egenhofer 1989 ) . |
| 24 | He shows his annoyance with some intimidating facial expression , backed up by a sparse selection of adjectival punctuation invariably using the ‘ f ’ word , which he uses with considerable effect . |
| 25 | Two other areas of Anderson 's character , his pomposity and his urbanity are describable through discourse analysis , though we must also examine the complexity of his utterances and the level of formality he uses in particular speech situations if we are to establish the consistency of these traits . |
| 26 | Section 13 of the Theft Act 1968 reads : [ A ] person who dishonestly uses without due authority , or dishonestly causes to be wasted or diverted , any electricity is guilty of a crime . |
| 27 | Nearby a smaller annex , probably used for ritual cleansing , has also been identified . |
| 28 | An author who studied the American Indian sign system used for ritual story-telling reported that the sign language of Indians , of deaf people , and of everyone else ‘ constitute one language — the gesture speech of mankind , of which each system is a dialect ’ ( Mallery , 1881 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing . |