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

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1 A " biosociety " says Professor A. Behrens , a prominent member of the project , " is one that should be fully aware of the problems of life in all its forms and of a balanced " input/output " in energy and materials … [ and ] is using biotechnology to an optimal extent in order to guarantee a proper balance between human needs ( partially represented by industrial needs ) , natural resources , and the environment " ( Oberursal , 1982 ) .
2 The Clinton/Gore transition team is using Sun workstations with Resumix software to process 2,000 to 3,000 resumes a day from people looking to fill all those old Republican jobs by Inauguration Day .
3 Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC ( UX No 434 ) , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM/Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place .
4 Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM-Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , which was the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place .
5 That is not to say that someone who is using word processing or a similar application will not be able to make the best of a desktop publishing package but rather to point out that new skills will need to be learned , new concepts understood .
6 ‘ Mr Balchin is using grant maintained schools as a Conservative front organisation , and that is a very dangerous game to play , ’ he said .
7 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 .
8 you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of
9 Turns out IBM Corp is using Raytheon Co 's UK software development and services division , Data Logic Ltd , as the prime development partner on its AIX CICS/6000 and Encina on AIX/6000 products which were announced at Unix Expo last week ( UX No 404 ) , and are due next June and this December respectively .
10 UI ( via Unix System Labs ) is using Chorus Systemes SA 's already established Chorus/Mix SVR4 micro-kernel as the basis of this work , although that 's no guarantee that future SVR4 releases will incorporate a micro-kernel .
11 The pirate station , which ran aground last November , is using equipment and records donated by listeners .
12 Subtract -20 as a penalty from any character whose player specifically states that his character is using Bluff or some similar skill ; Thadeus favours the straightforward approach and strongly dislikes people who behave otherwise .
13 Um now one thing er I notice you 're you 've gone for quite heavily is using kind of declarative directional statements .
14 Stephie is using sign language to say teddy bear .
15 When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't .
16 When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't .
17 It can pretend it is using colour film from 50 to 400 ASA , which will keep most happy snappers occupied , but does n't really lend itself to low-light photography or sports .
18 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 .
19 ( Eph. 4:22 ) Paul is using imagery derived from the picture of changing your clothes .
20 In addition to such correction , attention needs to be given to the position in which the pupil is using reading materials .
21 The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard .
22 Sheelagh Mullany , a business studies teacher , is using school computers to teach word-processing to a group of parents .
23 IBM is using STM to study the surface of silicon , gold and thin layers of oxides in an attempt to learn more about the way it effects their electrical properties .
24 Like Hungary , Poland is using tax breaks and special currency provisions in an effort to compensate for the lack of a convertible currency .
25 I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse .
26 He is using wisdom and er his wisdom of life or knowledge of like perhaps rather than wisdom .
27 So erm , book on which is kind of a character association by a pop cycle analysis and Gan erm , book on Gandhi , which is using cycle analysis , of , of , of , of tremendous contrast .
28 But if the couple is using planning and only have one child , then 100 colones is enough to survive on .
29 Macbeth is using language on two levels , one of which rebukes the other .
30 That 's right , but the trouble is using language accurately with all due respect is is to some degree
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