Example sentences of "use [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Female visitors were cheap , a point in their favour which continued to be emphasised as late as 1920 , when the Local Government Board considered the possibility of using them to inspect the homes of widows drawing poor relief . |
| 2 | Spices suited this situation very well : they had a high value in proportion to their weight , they could not be produced in Europe , and they were always valued by rich people who used them to mask the taste of the not-too-well preserved meat which was the best that anyone could hope for in the winter . |
| 3 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 5 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 6 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |
| 7 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 8 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 9 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 10 | Probably uses it to light the fire with ! |
| 11 | It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time . |
| 12 | Maybe the thought of buying Gazza was the reason Wilko was n't to worried about letting old Batty go … maybe the negotiations have been gong on longer than we know … and maybe ( just maybe ) Wilko has the tape of Urquart in ‘ House of Cards ’ and will use it to save the Monarchy in return for the deportation of all French players with silly shirts ; - ) |
| 13 | The Hodgson case shows how individual journalists who are aware of the Convention can use it to enhance the rights of the media generally . |
| 14 | Because control characters above 13 are included in COUNT , you can not reliably use it to find the position of the cursor on the screen . |
| 15 | Similarly in France in the eighteenth century writers such as Mably and Morelly , who believed passionately in the idea of equality , saw this as involving the transference of private property to the state , which could then use it to satisfy the needs of all . |
| 16 | that the Holy Spirit would use us to communicate the love of Jesus : |
| 17 | I wish to use it to reinforce the message of the forthcoming Earth Summit — that we must develop our part of the world in a more sustainable way . |
| 18 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 19 | He asked why he had continued to use it to destroy the character of a witness after being warned that it was confidential . |
| 20 | Essays are consumable at A level — use them to feed the skill of writing History . |
| 21 | For instance , the Pacific islanders use them to decorate the prows of their canoes and Malaysian fishermen attach cowries to their nets . |
| 22 | The influence of Hegel 's theory of history on both Lukács and Goldmann has denuded the concept of ideology of any analytical power in their work ; neither use it to examine the relation between thought and specific conditions of existence . |
| 23 | Some interpret their presence simply as evidence of their particular merit , as Rioch did ; use it to justify the absence of other women ; and display an exaggerated femininity . |
| 24 | The only hope in a tricky situation is to look to your behaviour and use it to influence the behaviour of others for the better . |
| 25 | The time difference is tiny — less than a thousandth of a second — but the brain can not only detect this difference but also use it to compute the position of the sound source . |
| 26 | Leave the second slit open , or fill it with compost or sand , and use it to water the cuttings with a can in dry weather , without splashing and wetting the foliage . |
| 27 | Only use it to protect the contents of the Scrap while erasing . |
| 28 | Most sections of the left were interested , not in stopping the war , but in using it to swing the balance of social power away from Britain 's traditional rulers . |
| 29 | Probably the single most important step in the whole process is learning how to make up a grid and then using it to control the structure of a document . |
| 30 | The hindmost attendant was holding what looked like a large loaf of bread , and was using it to hit the minion in front , which was running almost doubled up , its little gloved hands held over its head , where the pursuing scullion was raining blows with the loaf . |