Example sentences of "[noun] [be] use [adj] " in BNC.

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1 More and more housewives are using such a product .
2 Some artists are using this challenge as a flexibility to carve and curve the screens into new shapes that owe much to sculptured forms .
3 The immediate plans are to use this workshop as a centre in which to train craftworkers .
4 Global industries , such as securities and commercial banking are using isolated systems less and less , and are instead becoming increasingly dependent on both voice and data networks .
5 Those grant-maintained schools are using that money effectively for the benefit of the school and , more importantly , of improving education for the pupils attending those schools .
6 The independent schools inspectorate , HMI , in a report published yesterday on the ‘ rather tentative start ’ of AS levels , said a quarter of schools were using these for the wrong reasons , often as a safeguard for weaker Alevel candidates .
7 In early 1990 only five per cent of children in care in Flanders were using such services ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) .
8 Because the authors were using different types of data , it is quite possible that they have seen different dimensions of an essentially complex process .
9 Nearly four million animals were used each year for experiments , eighty per cent of which were rodents , which gave the activists a problem as rats do n't have good PR potential .
10 While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more .
11 He believes Mr Mitterrand is using Tory disarray over the treaty to cover up his own reluctance to reach a Gatt world trade deal .
12 The LIFESPAN recommendation is to use another person in the developer 's role , using their user name at least until that particular modification is completed .
13 Thus the aim of a two-part tariff is to use fixed charges to pay for fixed costs and then to levy marginal charges to cover marginal costs .
14 Another fashion in vinyls is to use this light-reflecting finish , and have patterns highlighted by embossing parts of the printed design .
15 The next stage of the study is to use this survey information to create a perfectly matched sample of bargaining structures data to correspond to the settlement data for each bargaining group for each year in the period 1 August 1979 to 31 July 1985 .
16 Some hospitals have lost 15 per cent of their nurses and in the south Ashford hospital , Surrey is using Red Cross volunteers .
17 Even if your usual practice is to use handwritten notes there will be times when typed notes are preferable such as a difficult telephone conversation that you want on the record or a list of action points arising out of the meeting .
18 The intention is to use this information to throw light on why British companies seem to be more reluctant than their US counterparts to make use of such methods .
19 The details of leaning recommendations may vary in different makes and models of engine , but for Lycomings , for example , the rule is to use rich mixture at all times above 75 per cent but lean whenever at constant power below 75 per cent .
20 Our personal rule is to use braided polyester ( Dacron ) which offers only moderate stretch and can be knotted positively without risk of slipping .
21 To avoid this problem and to allow the greatest freedom of competition between financial institutions , the alternative is to use monetary base control with no statutory cash ratio .
22 An alternative is to use one channel of an audio mixer as a volume controller , an added advantage being that , depending on the type , it may be used as a means of matching line and microphone-level signal inputs .
23 Another alternative is to use disposable paper bags — these are also much more flexible to work with and are good for very delicate piping .
24 The purpose of the study described in this chapter was to use these tapes to explore drivers ’ memories for these situations when they were viewed under laboratory conditions .
25 Notice in ( b ) pink was used first and then yellow and finally pale viridian .
26 THe aim of the study was to use three existing datasets to examine in detail the interaction of mothers and young children , and the means by which family difficulties are transmitted .
27 The enemy was using big weapons , shells or missiles , Defries could n't tell which .
28 Johnny was using this room , that much was obvious .
29 Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc .
30 More and more people from urban areas are using off-road cycles out of towns so a tolerance towards them is also necessary .
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