Example sentences of "use are " in BNC.

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1 In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines .
2 The only missiles they 're using are stones .
3 Even between technical peers as in a design team there can be difficulties in communication because the models which individuals are using are not identical .
4 Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph .
5 Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big .
6 A system , of greater barbarity can hardly be imagined ; the country being generally so wet , the means to air and dry it here used are , to exclude the sun and wind by the tall screens of underwood and forest around every field , and these being so small , a great number are so wood-locked , that it is a little surprising how the corn can ever be ripened .
7 The more precise terms that he uses are ‘ isotropic ’ and ‘ Quinean ’ ( after the philosopher W. V. O. Quine ) .
8 ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer .
9 ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer .
10 The work of Roland Barthes can be read in a similar way although both the style of his approach and the methods he uses are different .
11 Like Braque , Picasso had restricted the range of colours on his palette to browns , greys and greens , though the greens he uses are brighter and tend to predominate .
12 The tarot cards he uses are used in many parts of the world to play card games , where their association with ‘ fortune ’ refers more to luck than knowledge .
13 I I I I think it 's a bit awkward , because some of the words he uses are , there a bit strange , and they 're not in the dictionary any more , and er
14 But I mean i is n't he right in saying look this is , this is the erm figures he uses are seventy percent of the population that , that they are , if you like , our friends an and if you 're gon na have a revolution successfully you 've got ta make , distinguish between your friends and your enemies and the poor peasants are your real friends .
15 Let me come into the book of Hebrews and those words he uses are actually , to be underlined and emphasized .
16 A fragment from an altarpiece can not be appraised in just the same way as an independent portrait ; and a craftsman 's skill is esteemed more accurately when the materials used are rightly identified .
17 The anatomical points used are vital and specific combinations correspond to the particular ailments .
18 They also consider whether the means used are reasonably proportionate to the aims pursued : in European parlance , ‘ the principle of proportionality ’ .
19 In fact , the limits within which voluntary resources can be effectively used are narrow ; and they can only be effectively used even within those limits if professional full-paid effort is put into making it happen .
20 The green chillis used are the milder of the Mexican peppers .
21 ‘ The materials used are from building sites and they 're all associated with destruction . ’
22 No historian , for instance , would study the economy of a modern society by an examination of its coins ( or banknotes ) ; even questions about the way coins are used are usually better answered from anecdotal evidence .
23 ( The flavours used are listed in Fig. 3.2 . )
24 With their improved handling and reduced hazards they are , however , widely used in small operations particularly catering where the small quantities used are generally more economic .
25 Some of the interpretations used are :
26 Unlike many antibiotics , the antifungal agents commonly used are not absorbed from the gut and it is therefore not effective just to give tablets or capsules by mouth .
27 Requests that letters should not be sent to the home address or that the telephone should not be used are always respected .
28 The simple musical patterns used are a metaphor that holds the stories together .
29 Amongst criteria commonly used are :
30 The figures used are not always reliable indicators .
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