Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual or primary use of this word is to put clothes on yourself ( or somebody else ) , but it has other uses too , such as to dress poultry , to dress timber , to dress a window . |
| 2 | It has two uses : |
| 3 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 4 | Although it has innocent uses , devices like Happy Chip enable pirates to steal programs worth millions of pounds . |
| 5 | Its chief virtue lies in its medicinal qualities which were thought considerable ; even now it has some use in the treatment of ailments . |
| 6 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |
| 7 | The intermediate form is called IF/ALT form , because it eliminates all uses of SEQ and PAR . |
| 8 | Shortly after , he makes correct use of grammatical particles such as ‘ do ’ and , let us say , the whole auxiliary system of English , and does so across the board , that is , in questions , assertions , negations , etc . |
| 9 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 10 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 11 | If it works appropriate use of technologies and procedures will lead to success for any health plan . |
| 12 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 13 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 14 | But unlike the P series , which was made entirely of metal , it makes greater use of plastic , a trend pioneered by the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 15 | It makes particular use of the work of scholars who have conducted ethnographic analyses of discretionary behaviour in legal settings ( e.g. Cicourel , 1968 ; Emerson , 1969 ; Manning , 1977 ; Reiss , 1971 ; Ross , 1970 ; Skolnick , 1966 ; Sudnow , 1965 ) . |