Example sentences of "use it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 2 | Some use it to scrape algae from the rocks . |
| 3 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
| 4 | ‘ Instead of using my camera to simply record reality , I use it to improve reality . |
| 5 | They take some of the money they have cut from the training budget and use it to fund employment action . |
| 6 | From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun . |
| 7 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 8 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 9 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 10 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 11 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 12 | And , and , yes they ma use it to make paper and , as you say , to put a thickener in paints and things like that . |
| 13 | Medeva can expand this sales force and use it to develop US sales of its other products . |
| 14 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
| 15 | Use it to prevent words splitting at line-endings . |
| 16 | The mercury is dumped into the rivers of the region by miners who use it to extract gold from silt . |
| 17 | it is your duty as a manager to do everything to beat the grapevine ; never use it to convey messages ; the grapevine always imputes evil motives to the most benign actions |
| 18 | ‘ I use it to soothe headaches , ’ she says . |
| 19 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
| 20 | use it to pay school fees |
| 21 | Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) . |
| 22 | The People 's Will revealed their mounting impatience to seize state power and use it to reconstruct peasant society on rational lines from above . |
| 23 | I use it to keep track of editorial costs in the office and it 's perfectly adequate for my needs . |