Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fireater designed a system using the existing Fireater range of high expansion generators , a foam pre-mix solution storage tank and a regulated supply of nitrogen as a propellant . |
| 2 | The DTI survey found a reluctance to use available laws , such as the Computer Misuse Act , to pursue computer criminals . |
| 3 | Such is his importance that in order for him to become a minister again , the Government invoked a short-cut used only three times in the last 300 years . |
| 4 | It always seemed a waste to use up a couple of Gold Flake this way , but I always forget to buy cheaper cigarettes and anyway , the corner tabs on the cardboard packets make excellent roaches . |
| 5 | Bernard Frutin of ROCEP Pressure Packs , Scotland patented a system using a new propellant absorbed into a micro-sponge pellet . |
| 6 | In both editions of this book , I made a decision to use what some linguists have called ‘ the visibility strategy ’ , or ‘ positive language ’ , in which all generics are feminine : she , her . |
| 7 | eg. lifts , stairs , paths , rubbish chutes etc. this case concerned a path used by a plaintiff confined to a wheelchair who received injuries related to the poor state of the path . |
| 8 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 9 | They fought a duel using huge thorns of the sacred crab-apple tree , and Hahgwehdiyu emerged victorious . |
| 10 | In an address to the country on Jan. 5 , Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou indicated a willingness to use military force to crush the growing armed rebellion by Tuareg tribespeople in the north . |
| 11 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 12 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 13 | Then I saw a friend using parallel rulers on a map , and I realised that by using a similar technique I could put all those 1/4in cutter into use . |
| 14 | At the first , a building a short distance outside the town contained a furnace used for reworking coloured cullet . |
| 15 | The cloud contained particles of hydrochloric acid but initial fears that it contained a chemical used in mustard gas were later denied by bosses at the ICI works in Lostock , Cheshire . |
| 16 | Consequently , we did a meta-analysis using the data from all randomised controlled trials of this treatment . |
| 17 | Groses service to Wolverton Works continued until Ted Smith in 1927 bought a lorry used for general haulage during the day , and in the mornings and evenings placed forms within it for Wolverton Works men . |
| 18 | And then he bought a computer to use in the house , nowhere else like , s it was still his house was his kingdom . |
| 19 | In the August issue you published a letter from Jonathan Taylor who had a problem using his Seikosha printer with Windows 3 . |
| 20 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 21 | A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives . |
| 22 | To their doubts Tolkien could only reply that he was writing fiction , he had a right to use his imagination , and that after all his elves were only ‘ certain aspects of Men and their talents and desires , incarnated in my little world ’ . |
| 23 | Staff at the Blackwell Grange golf club are counting the cost of a weekend arson attack which destroyed a hut used for storing green tending equipment . |