Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [be] using " in BNC.
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1 | The word processor package which I 'm using to write this book has a couple of games built into it — partly for light relief , no doubt , but also to give newcomers the opportunity to play with the system , to get confident in using the tools . |
2 | So , for instance , when asked : ‘ What has been your greatest achievement ? ’ the philosopher 's reply will start with ‘ Well , it depends what you really mean by ‘ greatest achievement ’ and the context in which you 're using it . ’ |
3 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
4 | Kilowatts is not energy , it 's the rate at which you 're using energy , how quickly is this electrical appliance burning up electricity ? |
5 | This shows that they are words you are mentioning , or borrowing from another type of discourse , rather than words which you are using " in your own voice " . |
6 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
7 | And er this young lady , Clare 's terribly interested in the way in which we 're using our language today , so er I hope that does n't inhibit you . |
8 | We may have many hundreds of clients accessing that database all passing over large pieces of code , and obviously this Four G L code is not a message-based protocol , it is in fact a language which we 're using in the wrong manner . |
9 | At the end of the last chapter , it was apparent that the classification scheme which we are using is fallible . |
10 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
11 | They will not be struggling with defective sight in a confused environment in which they are using materials that are hard to decipher and presented without sufficient clarity . |
12 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
13 | In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices . |
14 | ( 15 November 1780 ) Meanwhile , Leopold continued to convey Varesco 's alterations to the text , so that his son could enter them in his own copy which he was using while writing the music . |
15 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
16 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
17 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
18 | The rate at which it uses energy , it 's the rate at which it 's using the energy . |
19 | I think that you should have a small amount , just what you 're using on the day |
20 | Mm , yeah , but be honest for what you 're using , for what you 've said , would they pick up that , with not having |
21 | Tint the undercoat with whatever you are using for the final colour and you will get a good , even finish . |
22 | He was so precise with his camera positions at outside rehearsal that , literally , before I left the church hall , or whatever we were using , to come into the studio I would measure off , with string and a compass , co-ordinates from the front edge of the marked-out set to each of his floor indicated camera positions . |
23 | By the time it comes for us to switch it on , they could say , right we want twenty pairs a month at this size , do n't know what they 're using . |
24 | He must of done , cos that 's what they were using , they were using the Hebrew scriptures to , to quote on were n't they ? |
25 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |