Example sentences of "[pron] [n mass] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the way of my people to use light words at such times ’ , says Merry apologetically , but just the same he can not stop . |
| 2 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 3 | The basic framework of rural settlement was augmented and many farmsteads were rebuilt and romanised , their people using Romano-British pottery , Roman coinage and other objects , and utilising the new features of dressed masonry , mortar , man-made roofing materials , heating systems , and mosaics — rectilinear planned buildings became the norm . |
| 4 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 5 | We hear Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on DEC 's competitive Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 6 | So again , there is no evidence whatsoever of substantial discontent with the credit arrangement which people use . |
| 7 | Is ‘ chance ’ the word which people use for their perception of the operations of ‘ those ’ , the mysterious senders of Scyld and of Gandalf too ? |
| 8 | As important to Tolkien , though , was that it is a word ( like ‘ shadow ’ ) which people use every day , and with exactly the right shade of uncertainty over whether they mean something completely humdrum and practical or something mysterious and supernatural . |
| 9 | But if they can be measured they may help us relate fertility decisions to the values , meanings , or signs which people use to make sense of the world and which motivate or justify their actions . |
| 10 | The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others . |
| 11 | Almost certainly , workable solutions which take into account the very disparate ways in which people use the original text will call for an interdepartmental committee to sort them out . |
| 12 | ( ‘ Doctor ’ was a title which people used somewhat freely when the heat of argument led them to assert their tribal group was the one most qualified by objective criteria of modernity to rule a district . ) |
| 13 | But TV 's main effect was to change the way in which people used their papers , more than to reduce their use . |
| 14 | Rather it is a complementary approach to the human past ; one which , by looking at the ways in which people used the land and the effect they had on it throughout human history , can enhance our grasp of how the environment might change in the future . |
| 15 | Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there . |
| 16 | He selects his people using common sense , not graphology nor " Delta-factor " personality tests . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll not get near enough under his staff to use that , ’ he sneered . |
| 18 | Act 1974 if an employer persists in requiring his staff to use such machines . |
| 19 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 20 | Further , some activities can not be judged by assessing their value to wealth-creation , when in fact they are what people use their wealth on . |
| 21 | Mrs Weaver , of Roseberry Road , Great Ayton , says it encompasses ‘ anything to do with what people use in everyday life . |
| 22 | In discourse analysis , as in pragmatics , we are concerned with what people using language are doing , and accounting for the linguistic features in the discourse as the means employed in what they are doing . |
| 23 | Chapters 3 to 6 analyse what was available and what people used — the numbers and circulation of the press , the expansion of TV and radio channels , the patterns of ownership and audiences . |
| 24 | If you 're not careful you can spend hours training your staff to use a training system . ’ |