Example sentences of "be using it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 2 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 3 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 4 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 5 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 6 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 8 | We have also developed genetic sexing methods such as I described earlier for A. albimanus and we are using it with species such as A. gambiae s.s . , |
| 9 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 10 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 11 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 12 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 13 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 14 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 15 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 16 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 17 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 18 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 19 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 20 | Talbot acted as a primary test site for AppleShare and one of their customers , the Poole Advertiser , has actually been using it in anger for about three months . |
| 21 | ‘ I am using it in yarn-dyed form for things like Tencel/rayon chambray for jackets and dresses . |
| 22 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 24 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 25 | It was sensible , as Mrs Thatcher had , ‘ to counsel caution in the maelstrom , but it all depends on whether you 're saying that in order to guide events in a steady fashion or whether you 're using it as an alibi to do nothing . |
| 26 | So you 're using it as an excuse ? |
| 27 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
| 28 | Or whether we 're using it as as a a mailshot reminding our customers of of how good we are and and what our improved facilities |
| 29 | They 're using it as , at a , as a club . |
| 30 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |