Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] use [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices .
2 The futuristic , raunchy gear uses body-hugging lycra adorned with rubber-looking PVC patches .
3 He said : ‘ It 's our plan to allow British Rail to use private investment to ease its financial problems .
4 The multiple debtor can face a bewildering array of different creditors using different courts , different procedures and different threats .
5 For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height .
6 Unfortunately , different products use different systems of numbering .
7 There followed a deliberate yield-improvement programme using Danish Reds , with the aim of creating a new crossbred British Red .
8 High-technology ( hi-tech ) businesses , with an open attitude to recruitment , have also been large users of executive search and today almost all sectors of British industry use this facility to some extent .
9 Especially good for your ‘ Empress ’ size friends , these are quick to knit , I 'd also very much like to knit a golden pleated skirt using several strands of gold lurex for a really glamorous lamé look .
10 The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos .
11 Different authors use various schemes , but the key innovations of Wright ( 1978 ) and Carchedi ( 1976 ) drop direct reference to the working class as exploited .
12 Unfortunately , different manufacturers use different codes so there is no compatibility between different systems .
13 In comprehension , children might already be aware that different speakers used different terms for instances of the same category , bird and oiseau say , but they might still be unsure for themselves of the specific conditions under which a speaker used one or other term .
14 Will he guarantee that if Commissioner Delors and his friends seek to impose a social chapter using other headings the Government will challenge their legal right to do so ?
15 A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) .
16 Bickerton ( 1973 ) provides detailed analyses using statistical scaling of variables to produce an implicational scale , ranking different speakers ' grammars in such a way that each grammar ( corresponding to a " lect " ) differs from the next by just one rule .
17 Accounting for Growth is a guide for investors on how to spot creative accounting techniques used in annual accounts — quite legally — to flatter profits ; it also contains a list which shows how many of the UK 's top companies use these techniques and to what extent .
18 Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads .
19 Welcome though many of the Government 's proposals are for reducing the demand for aggregates ( PIP 6.20 ) , the efficient use of materials , different approaches to construction , increasing the price of aggregates , making better use of waste materials and introducing voluntary codes by the public sector to use less material , will prove insufficient unless they are reinforced by a development strategy that questions the need for aggregates-intensive development , such as roads .
20 Things get confusing , though , because different companies use different extensions for the same file type .
21 Remarkably , Kieslowski shot and edited the ten films back-to-back over a 21-month period using different cinematographers on each production .
22 We ate New Zealand lamb and dairy products ; British factories used Malaysian rubber and tin ; British machines were sold to India ; and British capital was invested heavily in South Africa .
23 German planes used this war as ‘ bloody good practice ’ or exercises in training Nazi airmen for the World War being prepared by both dictators .
24 In assessing additional needs for educational expenditure ( AEN ) and the needs for Personal Social Services for children aged less than 17 , both the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health and Social Security use better estimates , which give a total of nearly 1.5 million children in lone-parent families .
25 Such inconsistencies make it impossible to cover a spherical surface using Cartesian coordinates .
26 Our best calm day using this method produced a basket of six fish weighing 7lb .
27 An accountant who bought and sold shares worth £250,000 in various public flotations using false names and addresses was jailed for a year and fined £25,000 yesterday .
28 Different writers use different names : Halliday and his followers use ‘ tone-group ’ , O'Connor and Arnold use ‘ sense-group ’ and Crystal , Brazil et al.
29 Different agencies use different methods for actually setting down strategies , but an increasing proportion insist on using ‘ consumer language ’ , expressed in terms of the intended or desired reactions or responses to the advertising .
30 Are n't there enormous commercial pressures to use these compounds ?
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