Example sentences of "it is use [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 2 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 3 | Finally there is a fifth meaning , which possibly has some evolutionary connection with the fourth meaning , and it is used for the instinctive affection of parents for the offspring . |
| 4 | Indeed , it will be seen that dare can express a sense very close to its meaning as a modal even while maintaining most of the syntactic characteristics of a full verb , in which case it is used with the bare form — eloquent proof that the use of one or the other version of the infinitive is conditioned by meaning and not by automatically operating syntactic rules . |
| 5 | The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor , which resides on the VMEbus , enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board . |
| 6 | Now it is used by the local playgroup and various other events take place there too . |
| 7 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 8 | This is the way it is used in the following example , but the pronunciation of the word is exactly as in LE : You know how white people stay . |
| 9 | Because it is used in the passive , ‘ said ’ in the Japanese text is understood to mean something like ‘ criticized ’ , and this meaning is correctly rendered in the English translation . |
| 10 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 11 | It is used in the structural engineering of chromosomes . |
| 12 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |