Example sentences of "it is [adv] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birch is a sustainable and fast-growing timber from northern Europe , but it is rarely used for fine furniture because of the skill required to convert the logs . |
| 2 | It is rarely used as a solo instrument ( at any rate melodically ) but is inimitable as a means of enriching an orchestral background . |
| 3 | ‘ It is rarely used — nowadays , ’ Felipe de Santis said shortly . |
| 4 | The provision is so cumbersome it is rarely used ( see p73 ) , and in any event it can be availed of only where " all reasonable care " had been taken to avoid such misunderstandings . |
| 5 | When a horse communicates by sound it is not using language as we would expect it to . |
| 6 | It is not using the 33MHz and 40MHz silicon Texas Instruments just announced ( UX No 384 ) , but will come in higher than both those rates . |
| 7 | The Kingman Report explained that although this accent must be the standard for foreign students of English in Britain , it is not used as the model of English pronunciation in British schools , since speakers may be rightly proud of their regional pronunciation , which identifies where they come from . |
| 8 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |
| 9 | It is not used to choose between alternatives . |
| 10 | Algae and other weed in the canal shows it is not used too often and some patches grow right across although it is not hard to paddle through them and the lengths of wood and other floating debris . |
| 11 | It is not used in the Soviet or post-Soviet systems , where the term ‘ council ’ is more usually employed . |
| 12 | Even if it is not used much the trenchant criticisms of it would appear to demand reform , as it appears to be a blunt instrument which ‘ should be honed down to produce a greater quality of justice . ’ |
| 13 | Eastern cultures certainly know about the clash principle — the yin and yang of the Chinese and the Japanese Sumo wrestlers — but it is not used as a method of getting change or making decisions . |
| 14 | It can not be sold and will cost the company £500 to dispose of it if it is not used to produce Abrasive . |
| 15 | If it is not used to manufacture Abrasive it will cost the company £500 to dispose of the ingredient ; therefore if it is used the company will gain £500 . |
| 16 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 17 | Since both need/dare and the infinitive evoke potentialities , no before/after relation is felt to pertain between them and so to is not necessary for the same reason as it is not used with the modal auxiliaries . |
| 18 | It is not used in the more restricted sense given to the term " trade secrets " in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 but which has now been effectively viewed as being too narrow by two members of the Court of Appeal in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418 : see p82 below , we think the approach in Lansing Linde is to be preferred . |
| 19 | This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless . |
| 20 | The ordinary use of the term " correlate " , where it is ordinarily used , is perhaps for a type of individual rather than an individual . |
| 21 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 22 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 23 | To put it another way , a noun , as an item from the lexicon of the language , has descriptive content and may be considered as a property concept just as much as any verb or adjective , with only the exception that it is habitually used in individual acts of communication in order to identify an entity , by means of that descriptive content . |
| 24 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 25 | It can be mixed with basmati rice to give an attractive appearance , but it is generally used for stuffings for game . |
| 26 | Although the term , delta , was originally derived from the Greek letter which approximates in shape to the Nile delta , it is generally used with a wider range of meanings today . |
| 27 | It is generally used in an exclusive rather than an inclusive sense . |
| 28 | In fact , the dining room should bc a particularly interesting room to decorate , because , like the bathroom , it is generally used for comparatively short periods of time , and then mostly at night . |
| 29 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 30 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |