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
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