Example sentences of "[vb past] made [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 2 | You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’ |
| 3 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 4 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 5 | Going further back again , local authorities had made good use , on a comparative basis , of national reading surveys . |
| 6 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 7 | This summer was the first anyone had made much use of the pool . |
| 8 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |
| 9 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 10 | In their petition , the Gascon clergy and nobility reminded Edward that his predecessors as ‘ lords ’ ( domini ) of Aquitaine , and their seneschals , had made full use of this assembly and that it was a valuable weapon in his armoury against the pretensions of the king of France and his officers . |
| 11 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 12 | Faccenda argued that its former employees had made improper use of a ‘ package ’ of confidential information , ie names and addresses of customers , the best routes to take to reach them , details of their usual requirements , times of Faccenda 's usual deliveries and , above all , information about Faccenda 's prices . |
| 13 | The employer 's business was supplying fresh chickens and it was alleged that the employee had made wrongful use of sales information such as customers ' names and addresses . |
| 14 | Bush 's statement followed reports that he was " upset , angry and perplexed " by Sununu 's apparent efforts to circumvent travel restrictions imposed by Bush on May 9 , after an inquiry had revealed that Sununu had made widespread use of military aircraft for personal and Republican Party business . |
| 15 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |