Example sentences of "used the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised . |
| 2 | Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English . |
| 3 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 4 | That would explain why they used the International Herald Tribune in the photograph . |
| 5 | ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World . |
| 6 | Some people thought plastic plates were tacky , but if you used the real thing once you got over a certain number you just had endless mess afterwards . |
| 7 | On Jan. 29 Bush used the annual State of the Union speech to address the matter of the war . |
| 8 | The first used the algebraic formalism developed by Hendrickson and coworkers ; the other treats multiwavelength data as arising from a conventional multiple isomorphous replacement experiment , with the inclusion of anomalous scattering , and uses a maximum-likelihood algorithm to refine heavy-atom parameters . |
| 9 | After lengthy negotiations , which kept raising the price , an over-extended General Motors paid $4.5 million for Cadillac in 1909 , and then used the good name of Leland and Cadillac to borrow more money to expand its empire further . |
| 10 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 11 | For this process they used the risk-premium version of the CAPM : . |
| 12 | When I last did this I also used the civvy wiring loom and column shroud as this facilitated a change from 24v military to 12v civilian spec . |
| 13 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 14 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 15 | His experiment used the conditioned suppression procedure and his critical experimental finding was that a novel stimulus added to a pre-trained excitatory CS evokes more suppression than the compound of CS plus familiar stimulus . |
| 16 | In his message of greetings to Mr Major — in which he used the intimate German du form of address , rather than the formal Sie he uses in exchanges with President Franois Mitterrand — Mr Kohl emphasised that the election result was ‘ a deserved honour for you and a great encouragement for all of us who share the same convictions ’ . |
| 17 | used the General Household Survey of 1980 , which provides a nationally representative sample of over 4500 elderly persons in private households to study patterns of care in households in which there were severely disabled people . |
| 18 | They interviewed a random sample of eighty-six people in Sydney about recent life events , and used the General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) to gather information about any psychiatric symptoms . |
| 19 | The male Surrealists used the female body to express an idea , whereas for the women artists it was a very concrete reality . |
| 20 | Green has a go at Stevie Wonder 's ‘ I Do n't Know Why I Love You ’ ( ‘ not as hysterical as the original ’ ) and he used the spare studio time at the end of the session to knock off a couple of singles for himself . |
| 21 | Operations continued , with the many paradoxes of guerrilla warfare : both sides used the civilian telephone network ; several Australians attended Sousa Santos 's wedding anniversary celebrations . |
| 22 | and used the other bike . |
| 23 | Her left arm was now under control , staying loosely by her side as she used the other arm and moved around . |
| 24 | Gedge used the other band members as arbitrators of the material , especially Gregory who contributes his own bass lines to songs . |
| 25 | He jammed the point firmly under the great fish 's jaw bone and used the other curve of S as a carrying handle . |
| 26 | Instead , the Poet offers the Friend a gift as one would offer a sacrifice to a god , pagan or Christian ( Shakespeare used the religious term ‘ oblation ’ just once in all his writings , for this poem ) . |
| 27 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 28 | They used the gentle touch to minimise the pressure on the 25-year-old woman following her horrific experience . |
| 29 | He just used the normal stain stuff , you know . ’ |
| 30 | just to make matters more difficult , sailors used the normal calendar day in their journals . |