Example sentences of "[adj] to use the word " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Really , Mr Lytham , it 's no secret that I am dying , so please do n't feel embarrassed to use the word ‘ death ’ . |
2 | But there is , however , one single paddle stroke where I am willing to use the word ‘ wrong ’ and that is the low brace . |
3 | I regard it as impossible to use the word ‘ any person ’ to enlarge the category of appellants against the prohibition notice beyond the recipient of the notice . |
4 | Equally , we would seldom be likely to use the word acrobatic of acrobats themselves or their doings except , precisely , on occasions when they are exercising their special skills — the rest of the time we may speak of them , if a description is needed at all , as large , or rich , or charming , as standing on his dignity , or asking for black coffee , or younger than Aunt Mary , and so on . |
5 | Thirty-five years ago my lecturer did not see fit to use the word profession . |
6 | Paddick was supposed to use the word ‘ lallies ’ . |
7 | Caroline Spry , the Channel 4 commissioning editor responsible for series like Out on Tuesday and Women Call the Shots , thinks it 's no longer possible to use the word in its old sense any more ; most of the other women I spoke to agreed with her . |
8 | Scientists are always reluctant to use the word ’ breakthrough . ’ |
9 | The stock objection to Locke 's identification of the ‘ idea ’ that is the meaning of the word ‘ pain' with the ‘ idea ’ , the feeling or sensation , that is caused in us when we eat too much manna is that what someone needs , in order to be able to use the word ‘ pain' meaningfully , is not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' . |
10 | Maazel is not ashamed to use the word ‘ love ’ in relation to Puccini . |
11 | It is important to use the word ‘ local ’ as much as possible . |
12 | As has been noted before , he followed the Beowulf -poet in being very loath to use the word ‘ heathen ’ , reserving it twice for Denethor and by implication the Black Númenoreans . |