Example sentences of "use [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 2 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 3 | HEALTH Service executives Neville and Carole Baggaley had only one complaint with the petrol Ford Escort they used for their daily 75-mile round trip to work : its thirst . |
| 4 | the same technology that they used for their high performance car system a Lotus or something like that |
| 5 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 6 | This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself — echolocation . |
| 7 | This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment . |
| 8 | ‘ I can not name , or articulate , the formula Resenence used in his personal relationships , ’ Lucien said . |
| 9 | In addition to general inter-student activity to promote communication , we need activities which will sensitize students to the way information is handled in discourse outside the classroom , but without using the kind of technical language we used in our theoretical approach in Section One . |
| 10 | Using a technique different to that used in our original report , we have now detected an antibody against the cytoplasm of neutrophils . |
| 11 | The headings I used in my inaugural speech last year were … |
| 12 | For it was Whitby built ships ‘ Endeavour ’ , ‘ Resolution ’ , ‘ Adventure ’ and ‘ Discovery ’ which Cook used on his great voyages . |
| 13 | In Germany , where the authorities have wisely allocated digital phones a slot a long way from that used by their analogue brothers , there are other worries . |
| 14 | They also ask : are native enterprises being presented with a powerful ‘ demonstration effect ’ where , given the opportunity , they would prefer to be rid of an old industrial relations system in preference for the one used by their newly-arrived neighbours ? |
| 15 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 16 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 17 | It 's not just synthetic ingredients that give your skin a boost — many modern products now contain plant extracts which have been used for their stimulating and soothing properties for thousands of years |
| 18 | It is an offence for a shopkeeper to sell solvent based products to anyone under the age of 18 , if they know , or have reasonable cause to believe , that the products are to be abused , and not used for their normal purpose . |
| 19 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |
| 20 | The 33 1/3 rpm speed was taken up by radio stations , and used for their internal purposes until the 1950s . |
| 21 | The most common opportunistic infections associated with AIDS is a type of pneumonia , called pneumocystic pneumonia , and Kaposi 's sarcoma. o There is nothing else to explain the suppression of the immune system , such as the use of drugs , such as steroids , that are deliberately used for their immunosuppressive effects . |
| 22 | Even if they are deep enough to house a few aquatic plants , it would be unwise to do this , for when used for their proper purpose , water turbulence is such that none but the coarsest and most vigorous aquatics would survive . |
| 23 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 24 | An 18-cm ( 6-in ) ruler is not only used for its measuring abilities when framing designs , but also if you are working directly on to a piece of material rather than card , it is easy to slip the ruler under the fabric when you sign your picture . |
| 25 | ‘ Ribbon ’ was used for its trochaic rhythm rather than any rhyming qualities . |
| 26 | Captain James Cook [ q.v. ] , on completing his second global circumnavigation , highly praised Jackson 's beer concentrate , which had been used for its antiscorbutic qualities . |
| 27 | The clinics will have to make up the difference with funds from the Länder , thereby ensuring that the money is used for its intended purpose . |
| 28 | A Customs spokesman in Dublin said : ‘ We have an ongoing campaign to ensure that marked diesel oil is only used for its intended purpose and that hydro-carbon oil is not imported from the North . ’ |
| 29 | A stepping motor system has a pullout rate of 500 steps per second and a microprocessor is to be used for its open-loop control . |
| 30 | It is still used for its original purpose . |