Example sentences of "[is] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to tell when someone is using drugs only occasionally — unless they are caught in the act , or when intoxicated like being drunk . |
| 3 | In one of them , researcher Jonathan Mackenzie is using the ideas behind fractal geometry to synthesise sounds . |
| 4 | The issue is using the increasingly popular ‘ fixed price ’ US-style system for underwriting and offering Eurobonds . |
| 5 | In the same way as Keneally is using fiction to bring a forgotten conflict to an audience which might shrink from it as fact , the arts programme admitted material — reportage and politics — which it usually would not . |
| 6 | Therefore , another essential quality in effective neighbourhood policing is using experienced officers who have familiarity on the beat . |
| 7 | Meyers finds ‘ The equation of the anus with the life source … an obscene and outrageous idea ’ ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) and concludes that Birkin is using Ursula as a homosexual substitute — this being even more perverse than homosexuality proper because ( according to Clifford Allen in a book ominously titled Homosexuality : Its Nature , Causation and Treatment ) the anus in homosexual love symbolizes the vagina and ‘ anal intercourse is only unconscious incestuous behaviour ’ ( p. 50 , quoted by Meyers , Homosexuality and Literature , 178 ) . |
| 8 | This is cone in part by an analysis of history and this is the technique that is using in Formen . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity . |
| 10 | ( In effect , such treatment is using bright light as a time-cue to adjust the body clock appropriately . ) |
| 11 | But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’ |
| 12 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 13 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 14 | Some hospitals have lost 15 per cent of their nurses and in the south Ashford hospital , Surrey is using Red Cross volunteers . |
| 15 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 16 | In the new project called Project Delphis , the Hawaiian-based environmental organisation Earthtrust is using computer technology to convert dolphin sounds into electrical impulses , so that dolphins can interact with computers via a standard video screen . |
| 17 | Like Hungary , Poland is using tax breaks and special currency provisions in an effort to compensate for the lack of a convertible currency . |
| 18 | In its development laboratories , IBM is using the microscope to check the quality of magnetic-storage discs . |
| 19 | One of the most important is using information about the type of data stored in order to prevent howlers . |
| 20 | China is using every negotiating device , and it is master of them all , to carve out as big a place for itself as it can in pre-1997 Hong Kong . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , UMNO is using the tactics that come with experience : Malaysia 's prime minister , Dr Mahathir Mohamad , is ostracising the Kelantan chief minister and putting the squeeze on the state 's budget , two-fifths of which comes from the federal government . |
| 22 | It is using our time , our talents and our money for God and his mission . |
| 23 | This is a result of pressure from British , French , Spanish and Belgian beer manufacturers which claim Germany is using this law to keep them out of its ( huge ) market . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Balchin is using grant maintained schools as a Conservative front organisation , and that is a very dangerous game to play , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 26 | The pirate station , which ran aground last November , is using equipment and records donated by listeners . |
| 27 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 28 | Steilmann , working in conjunction with leading scientists and investing , to date , DM 5 million , is using a new manufacturing process . |
| 29 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |
| 30 | Expressive behaviour , according to Tormey ( and not to be confused with the way Harré is using the term ) points in two directions simultaneously : towards some state of emotional arousal in the person ( say , anger or wonder or pleasure ) ; and towards what he calls an intentional object , something outside the person to which the state of arousal is prepositionally related . |