Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] use [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it were possible to use all the shares in the index in an arbitrage transaction , for instance when F > ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) and short selling shares is not required , arbitrageurs often choose to use an alternative approach . |
| 2 | If it were possible to use this audio-visual material for Swedish students , direct with the English commentaries , it would save considerable time and expense . |
| 3 | The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament . |
| 4 | We should , of course , widen the context even further for , if in the movies preaching usually came hand in hand with melodrama , this should remind us that films were still firmly in the hands of showmen and they were free to use social comment and social settings as they thought best . |
| 5 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed Becher et al ( 1981 ) in their interviews with teachers in East Sussex found that teachers were likely to use such tests as an ‘ occasional independent check on their judgement ’ i.e. as an external evaluation of their own assessment of pupils . |
| 7 | Canada , Australia , Africa and India were all using British steel . |
| 8 | This was particularly true of people who had close knit kin networks , who were unlikely to use individual kin as close confidants , and who often said that there were certain kin — usually parents — whom they would definitely not consult ( ibid . |
| 9 | The Teleuts began to become dependent on Russian metalware but the Russians were unable to use this as a bargaining tool , since the Teleuts knew that the troops could not exist without their trade goods . |
| 10 | The Americans did not perceive the true weakness of Britain 's position until the British loan request in 1945 , and then were able to use that to their advantage . |
| 11 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 12 | During the 1890s the FA left wages to the discretion of individual clubs , but there were complaints that top players were able to use this freedom to extract large sums from the directors despite their contractual bondage to a particular club . |
| 13 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 14 | By this procedure we obtained an unambiguous assignment of the complete backbone ( without reference to models ) , and from these we were able to use nuclear Overhauser effects ( NOEs ; Fig. 2 b ) to assign aromatic proton resonances . |
| 15 | The chief scene for amorous exchange was the entrance to the boys ' swimming baths , for the girls had no baths of their own , and were obliged to use those of their brother school for their weekly afternoon 's lesson ; here , on the steps , small red messenger boys would collect , proffering envelopes from their elders . |
| 16 | What would they say to her if they knew , these people who were obliged to use this means of transport day in , day out ? |
| 17 | There was a new management , who were eager to use top-class athletes for publicity purposes but appeared to want to give nothing in return . |
| 18 | It is true that in rejecting the [ applicants ' ] daughters they referred to and relied upon their admission criteria but in my judgment they were entitled to use those criteria to decide priorities pursuant to section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 19 | The general preference was that if the message or the information was ambiguous , it was preferable to use oral forms of communication . |
| 20 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 21 | The Association was non-political but was prepared to use political means to make its voice heard . |
| 22 | Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services . |
| 23 | While it is certainly the case that Paisley was prepared to use militant rhetoric in denouncing O'Neillism , it is also the case that he was a vocal critic of private initiative in vigilantism and of attacks on Catholics . |
| 24 | Mr Baker said that Washington was prepared to use military force to oust General Manuel Noriega , but on America 's own terms and timetable . |
| 25 | Yet the EP was willing to use this dispute as a justification for his recommendation for residential schooling . |
| 26 | She came to seem me before I began to use the LM potencies and there was some minor pathology in the kidney related to surgery for prolapsed kidney , so I was reluctant to use higher than 200 . |
| 27 | He was apt to use biological metaphors to explain the workings of organisations . |
| 28 | Keith Prowse , Ms Cahill suffered from claustrophobia and was unable to use public transport . |
| 29 | Nothing else : it was fatal to use any bit of wood . |
| 30 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |