Example sentences of "use [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , the positive attitudes towards SSE which are associated with teachers ' contact with the booklet augur well for its continued use for review purposes by Solihull schools .
2 In summary , we have developed a non-invasive test which predicts accurately gastric acid output in populations with high prevalences of achlorhydria and is suitable for field use for population studies of young children in developing countries .
3 Heparinised blood was taken from apparently healthy volunteers for use as effector cells for cytotoxicity .
4 Following the demise of the canal , the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm .
5 Olivetti 's commercial relationship with the Maynard minimaker stretches back to the 1970s , when the Ivrea company used to buy in DEC PDP-11 minis OEM for use as branch controllers for sale with its banking terminals .
6 At the age of eleven he had driven a herd of Welsh ponies up to the West Riding , for use as pit ponies in the mines .
7 A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen .
8 The first definite approach for the use of LMS workshops on government work apart from preliminary discussions on ambulance trains in 1929 and 1936 , and information about workshop capacity supplied to Sir Cyril Hurcomb for the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1934 , occurred in June 1937 .
9 Those who have little in-house capability make least use of consultancy services in all fields .
10 She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time .
11 The aim is to simplify and streamline existing techniques , and also to explore the use of expert systems as aids to decision making in this area .
12 Secondly , expert determination should be distinguished from the use of expert witnesses in litigation and arbitration , which is such a dominant feature of modern dispute resolution .
13 This section of the discussion concerns the use of sentence contexts in the recognition of words , and the way in which our eyes inspect some words in preference to others .
14 The work of Walker and Amsler [ 1986 ] on word sense discrimination ( described above ) involves the use of subject codes in LDOCE to identify the topic of a piece of text .
15 The Library of Congress subject headings make extensive use of subject subdivisions as a means of combining a number of different concepts in a single heading .
16 Finally , the use of serum autoantibodies in the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis is different according to the different hepatitis C virus circulation in each geographic area : of moderate value in the Mediterranean area , with high hepatitis C virus prevalence , they maintain a definite relevance in areas , such as UK , with low viral impact .
17 The ‘ Royal ’ come snot from any posthumous title bestowed on the late and much lamented ‘ Lenny ’ , but from the use of water colours by HRH Prince Charles on the covers .
18 The use of state posts as a source of patronage and control was reflected in the hypertrophy of the state enterprise bureaucracy .
19 They include : approval of the headteacher 's plans for use of the capitation allowance ; participation in the selection of senior school staff ; and control of the use of school premises outside of school hours .
20 Chapters 5 and 6 will demonstrate how the microcomputer can be used as part of the curricular work done by pupils and how it can greatly increase the use of school resources in the library and in the classroom .
21 Once again it proved possible to aggregate the responses into the same six categories , a comparison with Tables 4.5 and 5.4 shows that the use of response categories by subjects has remained remarkably constant throughout the three recognition experiments .
22 John Wakeham , the British Energy Secretary , had put a new twist on the need for nuclear power at the September 1989 World Energy Conference in Montreal by suggesting that the developed countries might have to turn increasingly to nuclear power to ‘ make room ’ for more use of fossil fuels by developing countries .
23 The common use of bearer shares outside the UK exacerbates the lack of information on ownership and also increases the power of depositories that are often banks , especially in the Netherlands and Germany .
24 A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force .
25 With these coatings , bone bonding is accelerated and it is possible to eliminate the use of bone cements in fixing artificial hips into the femur .
26 We may note an almost obligatory use of adjective modifiers in the third paragraph : " Round the bricked yard grew a few wintry primroses .
27 A few weeks ago the Wrekin Council in Shropshire banned the use of metal detectors from its 5,000 hectares of land .
28 The third part dealt with the use of recording systems by parents and stress was laid on the need to keep things simple and objective .
29 Industries will be banned from using high-sulphur content fuels , the use of government cars in winter will be cut by 30 per cent , and production at the city 's two electricity plants reduced by the same amount .
30 Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court .
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