Example sentences of "[is] use [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important that the teacher is quite familiar with the electronic equipment he is using in order to get the best results from his efforts . |
| 2 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 3 | He argues that : ‘ [ t ] o the small investor the idea that someone working in the City is using inside information to deal in what ought to be a uniformly informed market is quite repugnant . |
| 4 | Greenberg also warns the Unix contingent not to try to hoist NT on same petard Microsoft is using against Unix . |
| 5 | Greenberg also warns the Unix contingent not to try to hoist NT on same petard Microsoft is using against Unix . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Defence says : ’ Bomb disposal experts clear former military land for building but not if it 's used for agriculture . |
| 7 | It 's a long time before cloth wholly decays — look how long a bag of cement lasts under water when it 's used for emergency repairs to a sea-wall . |
| 8 | The living room has to house some or all of these things and if it 's used for eating has to come up with storage for china , glass and cutlery too . |
| 9 | The most recent development is the growing use of solar control and low-emissivity glass , which helps to retain heat in the winter and to prevent unnecessary solar gain in summer , often giving the equivalent effect of triple glazing when it 's used in conjunction with double glazing . |
| 10 | It 's used by heart surgeon Stephen Westerby at the John Radcliffe . |
| 11 | It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . |
| 12 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 13 | Nature is grinding down man , or will grind down man , has no regard to him , is cruel , all this kind of language is used of nature , and he depicts the only posture of the rational man as a kind of , if such a thing is possible , a rather emotional Stoicism . |
| 14 | If a thick layer is used without water force-circulated through it , trouble can soon arise from anaerobic decomposition . |
| 15 | ‘ It is important that plain English is used without jargon or local authority expressions which the public may not understand . ’ |
| 16 | In many cases the word ‘ intent ’ is used without elaboration , but there are some for which a full explanation of the meaning of intention is necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’ |
| 18 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 19 | The bait dropper is normally used independently of the rod with which you are fishing , and the swimfeeder is used as part of the end tackle to which your baited hook is attached . |
| 20 | The therapy produces the theory ; the theory is used as part of the communication processes which relieves suffering . |
| 21 | To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added . |
| 22 | In many third world countries human waste is used as fertiliser , and indeed in some oases night soil clearance areas are valued . |
| 23 | For example , oil is used as payment by oil producing countries for goods and services . |
| 24 | In Sri Lanka it is dried and used as a fertiliser , while in Indonesia it is used as animal feed . |
| 25 | When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected . |
| 26 | It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows . |
| 27 | TAA is used as stop codon . |
| 28 | Some fungus is used as food for the Night Goblins and their strange animals , but many are grown for their hallucinogenic or intoxicating properties or because they affect the Goblin metabolism in some other way . |
| 29 | However , attributes like those listed above clearly can not easily be manipulated , a particular problem in Nordberg 's view when an ‘ insider ’ is used as fieldworker : |
| 30 | On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer . |