Example sentences of "use it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 2 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 3 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 4 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 5 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 6 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 7 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 8 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 9 | Engineers can use it to model a wide range of process industry applications ; from complete plant to individual items of equipment . |
| 10 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 11 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 12 | You can er , use it to highlight a key piece of information , whether that 's in the diary or in the work organiser . |
| 13 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 14 | Start by calculating the real cost of crime to your business and your employees by carrying out a ‘ Crime Audit ’ and use it to produce a written strategy on crime prevention in your business . |
| 15 | In this book I use it to denote an uncritical obsession with consumption . |
| 16 | They use it to assume a new appearance . |
| 17 | Smadja argues that knowledge of relations such as these is necessary to both understanding and generation , and he outlines an approach for automatically acquiring such restrictions from a corpus , and then using it to augment an existing lexicon . |
| 18 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |