Example sentences of "[coord] to use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet within the context of organized literary study , it is true that much of the difficulty students have in making sense of texts comes from a lack of information , or to use the older term , a deficiency in general knowledge . |
| 2 | Or to use another of Mr Airlie 's sayings : ‘ You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar ’ . |
| 3 | The new rules place a statutory duty on anyone who wants to alter the genetic structure of living creatures in the laboratory — or to use such organisms after they have been genetically engineered — to notify the executive well in advance so that it can assess independently the safety of the proposed activity . |
| 4 | The usual ways of dealing with such individuals is to ignore them , or to ‘ diagnose ’ them psychoanalytically , or to use them as ‘ proof of the misogyny of the Church authorities . |
| 5 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 6 | ‘ If every dog is marked at birth and registered , the kind of person who wants to throw out a dog onto a motorway will seek to remove the identifying mark — it does n't take a moment with a Stanley knife to remove an ear tattoo , or to use a drop of acid to burn off a brand . |
| 7 | North ( 1986 ) , for example , has suggested that widespread cash-cropping of groundnuts in the Sahelian zone has obliquely contributed to desertification because farmers can not afford either to purchase fertilisers to maintain soil-nutrient status or to use a long fallow period . |
| 8 | The safer and proper thing is to offer the psychic phenomena to God , either to remove or to use them . |
| 9 | That will leave the Secretary of State for Energy free to do as he pleases : to follow the precedent set by other ministers in the present government by casting aside the inspector 's advice on the grounds of national need ; or to use the report as a ‘ do n't blame me ’ rubber stamp for the project . |
| 10 | And so the Blue Skies project — or to use its more prosaic name , the Venture Research Unit , got off the ground . |
| 11 | For example , for much of the day we need to be able to repress or split off some feelings to enable us to concentrate or to use our intellects . |
| 12 | These references and allusions tie the story together , we would say , or to use Gandalf 's image show one thread twisting over another . |
| 13 | I did n't want , either , a sexual apartheid or to use violence or magic . |
| 14 | How , given Mannheim 's refusal to reduce knowledge to the specific ideas of an individual or to use a category of ‘ group mind ’ , can this be done ? |
| 15 | If you have good technique you are free to do whatever you wish … to move your opponents around the court or to use a certain kind of tactic . |
| 16 | For example , people who wish to record the activity of single cells in the brains of freely moving animals argue about whether to use very fine electrodes that can record from even the smallest cells but give very unstable recordings , or to use larger electrodes that bias the sample to larger cells but give more stable recordings ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 17 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 18 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 19 | One route for beginning to make informed choices is through self-advocacy , where students are encouraged either to speak up for themselves or to use an advocate who speaks on their behalf . |
| 20 | But they were very difficult to prove , or to use as the basis of generalization , because of the difficulty of isolating TV as a causal factor . |
| 21 | Buy a puzzle book and take it with you on long journeys in the car , or on public transport , or to use in your lunch hour at work . |
| 22 | It is a grim indictment ( and I do apologise to him if I am wrong ) but he seems not to read Latin or to use any source except in translation . |
| 23 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 24 | With its dramatic Alpine backdrop Munich is a fabulous city in which to either enjoy a GTF City Break , or to use as a base for exploring the surrounding beauty of Bavaria . |
| 25 | The Japanese takeover of Manchuria caused anxiety among major nations outside Asia , but faced with their own economic and political problems none was prepared to engage in military action or to use economic sanctions to assist China . |
| 26 | The game of tables skittles , or to use its traditional name ‘ Devil Among the Tailors ’ , is a pub game which originated in London in 1783 . |
| 27 | To the outsider , a priori , it might seem positively unreasonable , or to use a favourite word of the women compositors , unfair , to pay the fat the same as the lean . |
| 28 | A slightly more sophisticated system is to put the names , positions and addresses on stencils or to use an addressograph system . |
| 29 | To do this it is possible to use the verb ‘ order ’ and say , for example , ‘ I order you to clean your boots ’ , or to use the imperative form ‘ Clean your boots ’ , which is often associated with ordering . |
| 30 | The option of using public transport for travel to work or to use services may be very limited . |