Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the use of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 2 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 3 | The second is that the CBD stricture is always distal allowing for the use of comparatively short ( 34 mm ) mesh stents . |
| 4 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 5 | The craftsmen , and we shall always need them , combine through the use of the whole range of human skills such extra elements as proportion , difference , originality , and the ability to work with the grain or the particular unique characteristics of the materials they work with . |
| 6 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 7 | Band A , intended for the use of the electricity supply industry , does not exist . |
| 8 | Interest groups have become increasingly important to the electoral process , changing the role of campaign financing through the use of PACs . |
| 9 | For the materialist Richards meaning was to be explained as the use of words either to point to things or to evoke feelings — in terms of behaviour , in the last analysis . |
| 10 | Whenever a place is being furnished for the use of young children , a set of blocks is generally considered one of the basic pieces of equipment to be provided . |
| 11 | In the later stages pupils need to know about the use of references , and in their own work should be encouraged to keep a record of the sources they have consulted . |
| 12 | As things stand , a dilemma of this kind can only be resolved through the use of cumbersome legal machinery which is not appropriate to the situation . |
| 13 | The ‘ Douglas ’ was installed for the use of doctors , and was closely followed by subscriber exchanges for other businesses like the Iron Consortium , otherwise known as the ‘ Iron Ring ’ . |
| 14 | Such emphasis on corporate wholeness can also be seen in the prayers recommended for the use of lay people during the Latin Mass . |
| 15 | Henry 's friends were yesterday being interviewed about the use of drugs at the party , held at the three-storey house he shared with 11 others . |
| 16 | At Harvard University in the 1970s , women protested against the use of the generic masculine — that is , the pronoun he and its variants used to refer to sex-indefinite or sex-inclusive referents — in the context of theological discussion . |
| 17 | Reports from hospices have recommended against the use of oxygen for dyspnoeic cancer patients . |
| 18 | The Guardian of May 23 said that the fighting , previously " confined to sporadic small arms skirmishes " , was intensifying with the use of heavy weaponry and organized military formations . |
| 19 | Severe , sometimes fatal , hepatitis has been most commonly reported in association iwth the use of diclofenac and sulindac , Although fatalities have also been reported with the use of naproxen and indomethacin . |
| 20 | But no single country at present has the money to build a really major new telescope to follow the Space Telescope — and the most important advances in astronomy have always come with the use of a major new instrument , from Galileo 's telescope of 1609 to the Einstein Observatory in 1978 . |
| 21 | It is epitomised in the use of three different alphabets — Latin , Cyrillic and glagolitic — in early Croatian literature . |
| 22 | forging ahead has come from the use of that word in relation to horses . |
| 23 | The reason for this inexorable rise in numbers lies in the use of imprisonment by British courts both before and after trial . |
| 24 | The principal way in which characterization is thus exploited in Dame Sirith lies in the use of formulaic language , in particular in the use of terms appropriate to the romance of fin amour . |
| 25 | The modern application of this doctrine lies in the use of police search warrants . |
| 26 | What range of choice , for example , does English provide in the use of complements or for determiners ? |
| 27 | Thus if the air-hostess announces ( 50 ) You are to fasten your seat-belts now she is the speaker or spokesman , but not the source of the instructions , and this seems to be encoded in the use of the infinitive form . |
| 28 | Christianity also excelled in the use of precious substances for enriching the furnishings , vestments and accoutrements of religious ritual . |
| 29 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |
| 30 | Treatments varied from the use of opium ( to reduce gut motility and relieve pain ) , to the use of purgatives and salt-water emetics to ‘ flush out ’ the offending organism . |