Example sentences of "its use " in BNC.

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1 Figures on its use from 1985 to 1989 were announced by the Minister of Justice at a press conference on 16 January 1991 .
2 From Germany there is The End of the History of Art ; from Britain a group of essays describe The New Art History ; from the United States has recently come Rethinking Art History : meditations on a coy science ; and from Canada there is a forthright title Art History : its use and abuse .
3 The only safe policy is to have oxygen equipment available and to insist on its use for any attempts at Gold or Diamond Heights .
4 c ) If it is considered imperative that such privileged information should be included on the paper and which [ sic ] falls within the terms of the concern expressed above , then the whole should be submitted for approval by a Chief Officer … who will give a ruling as to its use and circulation .
5 ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system …
6 Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually .
7 This use of hair as a symbol of social disorder reflects Benthall 's contention ( 1976 ) that an obsessive interest in the body was a result of people turning to its use as a medium of expression , because of their individual inability to shape modern technological and bureaucratic society .
8 This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation .
9 This is another high scoring technique , though its use is fraught with danger .
10 In addition to its use as a versatile doorchime , the Courier can also be used by the elderly , the disabled and bedridden as a handy low-cost call device .
11 Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children .
12 Ashman seems to make more whimsical use of the device of exit up-stage , re-entry stage right ( whether the idea is Ashman 's or Noelte 's , its use in duets where one knows the exiting character has a line to sing almost at once , soon becomes irritating ) .
13 Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport .
14 ‘ It is not simply a matter of buying a spool and catching millions of fish , ’ Chilton said , ‘ but the more skilful and forward-thinking anglers are developing its use all the time .
15 And although the supertram concept will spread through major cities during the next decade , Blackpool will still be alone in its use of traditional double-deckers .
16 Dr Jonathan Crick , a consultant cardiologist at Bristol Royal Infirmary , and a consultant radiologist , Dr George Hartnell , tried the technique after hearing of its use in West Germany .
17 Yet studies of police discretion also emphasize how its operation is structured , so that to a great extent its use becomes standardized , although individual whim can not be ignored entirely .
18 The ritual nature of Sweeney Agonistes emphasizes and encourages the notion of participation in a ritual process , through its use of those aspects of culture in which the people of the period participated most : jazz , music-hall songs , melodrama .
19 The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits .
20 The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists .
21 The cost of buying equipment and the requirement of skilled personnel to maintain and run it can make its use in the repeated assessments which are required for measuring rhythms prohibitively expensive .
22 Following its use as a cotton warehouse , the building had been the headquarters of a mail-order company and ended its commercial career accommodating the offices of a number of small businesses .
23 Other considerations are price of energy and the way its use is controlled .
24 Whether he wants to limit the penalty to certain categories of murder or whether he favours leaving its use to the discretion of the courts and the Home Secretary is not clear .
25 The coastguard is designated a non-military organisation under the constitution , and its use as an escort would therefore not be as controversial .
26 The coastguard or Maritime Safety Agency , is designated a non-military force , and its use would circumvent the constitutional stipulation against foreign military operations .
27 The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but , as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited .
28 The prince stressed that Britain had produced the world 's most successful language but as its use in the media and theatres showed , it had become impoverished , sloppy and limited .
29 The Soviet Union is making strenuous efforts to reduce its dependence on imports , boosting its use of fertilizers to levels above those anywhere else , but its enlistment of poor , fragile land in the battle for self-sufficiency in the early 1970s has meant a loss of land through abandonment in the 1980s , perhaps as much as 13 per cent of the peak grain area .
30 All of the caveats that apply to radiocarbon dating apply to its use in authentication .
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