Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] use [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 2 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 3 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 4 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 5 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 6 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 7 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 8 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 9 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 10 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 11 | Other publishers have been using unusual marketing tools this year . |
| 12 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 13 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 14 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 15 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 16 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 17 | Lutyens had been using classical detail in some form or other since his earliest years as an architect . |
| 18 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 19 | EC Commission vice-president , Sir Leon Brittan , has promised the European Parliament that he will investigate claims that the Italian authorities have been using unfair means to acquire public control of the Italian chemical industry . |
| 20 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 21 | Similarly , post-war fascists have been using psychological and anthropological material in their racist ideology ( Billig , 1978 , 1981 ; Seidel , 1986 ) . |