Example sentences of "using [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 These two techniques are primarily intended for use in table searching in main storage , and are only incidentally usable for direct files ; it is worth noting that they are intended to eliminate the order-preserving properties of division , while using division as a convenient randomizing algorithm .
2 The research will examine the adoption of new technology within a local labour market using Sheffield as a case study .
3 In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe .
4 The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant .
5 The study will examine various organisational forms of collaboration using aerospace as a case study .
6 In a letter of that autumn Eliot confessed to using Arnold as a scarecrow — apparently lifeless , but having under his arm a real gun to be fired against the old guard .
7 He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off .
8 the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives computed using data for a number of days , that is , ( Anderson , 1985 ; Barnhill , Jordan and Seale , 1987 ; Cornell , 1981 ; Kenyon , Kling , Jordan , Seale and McCabe , 1987 ; Milonas , 1986b ) ;
9 Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions , the models will be tested for feasibility , accuracy and sensitivity .
10 He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output .
11 The Lucas ( 1973 ) paper tests one of the major predictions of the rational expectations model developed in chapter 4 and summarized in equation ( 6.1 ) by using cross-country data ; the Barro studies test the other major prediction of that model using data from a single country .
12 Kevin , from Lymington , also beached flounder to 1 lb 12 oz using ragworm on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line .
13 However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered .
14 Using research as a basis , the Barnes and Maple monograph analyses the importance of sex stereotypes in the development and maintenance of mental illness .
15 Perhaps we should all start using words with a more accurate yet emotive appeal to describe what we are producing .
16 ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot .
17 Using funds from a variety of sources — notably Scottish Homes , Historic Scotland , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd — the Lister Co-operative has created 50 flats at affordable rents out of former dereliction .
18 However , when using fabric with a large pattern repeat this can prove wasteful , so your fabric requirement should be calculated as follows :
19 The following cases were dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Alan Robert Lazenby , 22 , of Knotto Bottom Road , Northallerton , was convicted of entering building and stealing property valued at £824 , entering a storage container and stealing property valued at £350 , dishonestly attempting to obtain £989.46 worth of goods by deception , dishonestly obtaining goods valued at £77 by deception , driving a van while disqualified and using a van without insurance , without a test certificate , driving while disqualified , failing to provide specimen of blood for analysis , driving car recklessly , using car with a defective tyre , with a defective braking system , failing to report an accident , failing to stop after an accident , failing to stop when required by PC , using a car without insurance ; 15 months imprisonment , licence endorsed , six points , disqualified for three years .
20 In addition , some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy .
21 A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample .
22 Using animals as a substitute for humans is a far from straightforward business .
23 It was advice Erika took seriously , distancing herself from Fritz as much as possible and adroitly using Rosa as a shield so that Fritz was forever baulked in his obscure desires .
24 None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives .
25 Sigmund Sternberg , as chairman of the International Council of Christians and Jews , considers that : Many recent religious revivals experienced in particular by Jewish , Christian and Muslim communities … have assumed frightening forms of intolerance , exclusiveness , racism and fanaticism as well as nationalism , using religion as a weapon in defence of particular causes .
26 Using Bury as a ‘ cross-cut ’ , we ensure we are over our ‘ line ’ from a readily identifiable series of sharp bends on the first of those roads , and the pattern of minor roads leading off it ( O ) , later by the pattern of the cross-roads beneath us on the A134 ( P ) plus the twin power-lines .
27 The Stuarts liked using charters as a way to give royal encouragement of development and enterprise , as was shown by the large number of them they issued to trading companies and to colonies , including some like Rhode Island and Connecticut which they could not have found politically very sympathetic .
28 Using psychoanalysis as a political weapon to understand the unconscious determinants of the dominant imaging of women , Mulvey 's concern with pleasure in looking took its cue from Freud 's theory of scopophilia in early childhood .
29 An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit .
30 This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes .
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