Example sentences of "[prep] use [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money .
2 President Elizabeth Diggory told the GSA 's annual conference in Bristol : ‘ Some schools are seriously thinking about using their own tests instead . ’
3 ( By moving up from the level of salesman in his insurance company , he 'd sacrificed a firm 's car and was rather careful about using his own . )
4 Do not be afraid of using your own jargon — the words and phrases dealing with your expertise — provided you are reporting to people in your own profession .
5 But you will , nevertheless , be expected to be original in the sense of using your own knowledge and independent judgement to argue an original case .
6 The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ?
7 For his part the Prince had no intention of using his own money — he had better uses for it — and so things remained as they were .
8 Wordsworth was forced into using his own past as material for poetry , and the first attempts of a writer in a new vein are frequently the best .
9 It 's also to do with using your own past experiences to show empathy and understanding when others need it .
10 What 's wrong with using your own name ?
11 While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ .
12 On the requirement to spend 85 per cent of the DSS transfer money on the independent sector , the committee expresses concern that it will discourage SSDs from using their own residential care .
13 My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council .
14 the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources .
15 All told we 're adding maybe another 45 minutes to the journey using public transport and foot as opposed to using your own car .
16 By using air- to-air refuelling you can keep them airborne far longer than they would normally be able to using our own internal fuel .
17 In other instances the , client company insist on using their own letter heading at least a brand identification .
18 In both cases the heads of the city telephone networks ( Vladimir Panov in Ekaterinburg and Valentin Dolgoborodov in Novosibirsk ) say the company would only take full payment in advance and insisted on using its own engineers on the projects .
19 Yous gon na use them all now are n't you ?
20 But unlike many computer-makers , Compaq makes all its sales through dealers , rather than by using its own sales force .
21 The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks .
22 Hence , someone wishing to finance a catering enterprise may have to guarantee the loan by using their own personal assets , e.g. their house , as security .
23 Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate .
24 Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin .
25 With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War .
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