Example sentences of "[prep] use the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right-handed males who are very susceptible to hypnosis also seem to show a preference for using the right hemisphere of the brain — the side associated with imaginative rather than analytical skills . |
| 2 | Collective discussion of what caused , for example , the appalling deprivation in the shanty towns became the starting point for using the new skills of reading and writing . |
| 3 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 4 | This scheme is accounted for using the applicable US accounting standard . |
| 5 | The Cord Maker comes complete with an explanatory instruction leaflet , containing suggestions for using the finished braids and cords . |
| 6 | A facility , as mentioned before , for using the actual names of the children in the class ( input in advance by the teacher ) can be effective . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got this irksome fetish for using the natural colours surrounding a place to decorate the interior — but I did n't bring you here to discuss my schizophrenic choice of living surroundings , Virginia . |
| 8 | If these two ballets were evidence of MacMillan 's gift for using the classical technique in a fresh and personal way , La Hermanas ( based on Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba ) , which came between , showed those themes of dark sexuality which would find their full development in Mayerling . |
| 9 | There are other reasons for using the phonological code , either before or after word recognition has been obtained , and some which go towards explaining its extensive use include : 1 allowing the generation of a memory of what has been read , 2 imposing an intonation upon the print in the service of comprehension , 3 imposing an external control on the reader 's attention to help convert the two-dimensional spatial display of text into a form appreciated by our temporally one-dimensional conscious processes . |
| 10 | Edge cast off using the automatic linker |
| 11 | She was acutely aware of the presence of Petion and the Marines around her , and felt somewhat guilty about using the advanced technology . |
| 12 | I 'm sometimes asked about using the right hand side of mylar sheets for patterns . |
| 13 | Even if these were surmounted , two fundamental questions would remain about using the average wealth of a country as an index of the well-being of its citizens . |
| 14 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 15 | He was sure it would work for him and his doggedness was rewarded , when , after using the new tool for a mere six months , he retained his Ryder Cup place and ended the 1989 season in 11th place on the money list with more than £188,000 . |
| 16 | After all , I made the 1989 side after using the new putter for only six months . |
| 17 | He pauses once and then hesitates again before making the statement , " I " m a great admirer of yours " ( p. 58 ) and the level of formality he uses to introduce himself ( giving his own name after using the formal vocative " Mr Crisp " to gain his attention ) is absurdly high for the situation . |
| 18 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 19 | A POLICEMAN was fined £500 yesterday after using the main police computer to check up on the boyfriend of a neighbour 's daughter . |
| 20 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 21 | As we said earlier , one benefit of using the UV technique is that all artwork can be retained for future use , perhaps being modified if necessary . |
| 22 | ROBERT ARMSTRONG 'S Shujan can win this afternoon 's Normanton Handicap at Southwell to continue the increasingly popular trend of using the all-weather surface as a build-up to a bid for the Lincoln at Doncaster later this month ( writes our Newmarket correspondent ) . |
| 23 | It is difficult to find scientific evidence of the value of using the Rogerian client oriented counselling method , which is widely advocated , and on this we share the authors ' doubts . |
| 24 | Instead of using the Lasswellian framework for the study of the media 's effect on , say , individual voting preferences — namely , what is ‘ the effect of the media on the election ’ — Seymour-Ure suggests that one should rephrase the question as follows : ‘ What is the function of media in the electoral process ? ’ |
| 25 | The majority of the applications access the data through a small library of function calls , so that instead of using the flat files produced by the database they can be interfaced easily to other databases without significant code changes . |
| 26 | The FASB plans , however , to retain the current practice of using the amortised cost method for debt securities that management has a positive intent to hold to maturity . |
| 27 | Fitting a 3.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch bay is simply a matter of using the appropriate screws . |
| 28 | Once ‘ plugged ’ in to the High Court , the possibility arises of using the ordinary system of civil appeals to challenge the decision of the High Court . |
| 29 | It is a question of using the right tool for the right job . |
| 30 | Right exactly because you might you might have the client or a representative of the client as well as architects and people who would so you have to be careful do n't you in terms of using the right words . |