Example sentences of "to use the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to use the sainted patience ploy , the one he found most difficult to handle . |
| 2 | If you prefer to use the heated variety , we were impressed with Carmen 's new Set To Go rollers ( £20.99 for 10 ) , which have a speedy heat-up time of just five minutes . |
| 3 | Continue to use the essential oils in your bath , remembering to alternate between two or three different anti-cellulite essences . |
| 4 | It is important to remember that unc is a purely syntactic relation , and that it is not permissible to use the above clauses in conjunction with our laws ( which preserve semantics rather than syntax ) . |
| 5 | At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation . |
| 6 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 7 | do n't forget to use the outside scale , and the other thing is , make sure you 've got it the right height , it 's not a precise |
| 8 | Jennie told Katharine not to be afraid to use the outside rein quite strongly when he was over bending . |
| 9 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 10 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 11 | Do not be tempted to use the small charge that is already in the battery , as this will run down in seconds . |
| 12 | It is , incidentally , illegal in Malta to kill any bird or prey or to use the heavy-gauge shot that was used . |
| 13 | But failure to use the time-honoured formula was not the only difficulty ; defects of another kind could arise , where , for example , the testator had failed to make clear the content of his disposition . |
| 14 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that , to use the time-honoured phrase , we have no present plans to undertake such an exercise . |
| 15 | In return for an individual monthly payment each occupant had |
| 16 | To use the nature-culture dichotomy for a greater understanding of a particular situation is not therefore to promote principles of immutable ( socio- ) biological determinism . |
| 17 | However , because the reptation is assumed to occur by migration of a segmental kink along the chain , the force needed to do this is applied one segment at a time and so it is more appropriate to use the frictional factor per segment ζ . |
| 18 | ( This is also a constructive way to use the dull dialogue in Task 46 . ) |
| 19 | If you have been fiddling with the boot files a lot anyway , you should have no bother with this , and will be able to use the in-built editor to make any changes you want . |
| 20 | He may have intended to use the symbolic value of the trophy to emphasise France 's achievements . |
| 21 | Computers for commercial data.processing , where the assumption may be invalid and where an accumulator would have to be very long to deal with character string data formats , tend to use the two-address format and not provide an accumulator . |
| 22 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 23 | I try to update that wherever I can , and it is very difficult , we have to use the annual census of employment and historic records . |
| 24 | In spite of the embarrassment , Lord James repeated his encouragement to schools to use the self-governing powers and claimed that the Scottish Office has received 60 inquiries about such a change since June . |
| 25 | The first requires the subsidence of a whole series of oceanic islands : the second attempts to use the fluctuating sea levels of the Pleistocene , which are well evidenced by all sorts of phenomena , as the explanation of the features of coral reefs . |
| 26 | In the Belfast research programme one of our aims was to use the complex patterns discovered in a live speech community to throw light on the kind of movements that might have taken place in linguistic change in the past . |
| 27 | They are artificial and do not adequately measure the students ' ability to use the complex information tools available and thereby gain the information that would be of use for their studies . |
| 28 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 29 | It is with interval and ratio scales that we reach a level of measurement which allows us to use the standard arithmetic operations . |
| 30 | It is justified to use the standard language in this way if our primary interest is in those developments that themselves largely depend on the standard ideology ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) , for example , elaboration of vocabulary and certain developments in clausal syntax , because literacy — and hence standardization — are plainly involved in these , and their role can be investigated . |