Example sentences of "the [noun sg] uses " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intersource Technologies , of California , claim that the bulb uses only a quarter as much energy as conventional bulbs . |
| 2 | The writer uses many of the cons of the genre ; red and blue plumed knights , pale maidens in dark castles , full moons in star-washed skies , but her descriptions are so finely wrought that they transcend the fantasy formula . |
| 3 | The board uses three main arguments : the requirement for future capacity ; the need to minimise system costs ; and the achievement of diversity in fuel supplies . |
| 4 | As well as the VGA adaptor , the board uses a personal computer 's VGA colour monitor for all user controls and display of video signal data . |
| 5 | the sack uses the company 's Tergoflex-Light system which allows you to fine-tune the hip belt and shoulder harness position . |
| 6 | The technique uses video equipment which produces a three dimensional impression . |
| 7 | The technique uses Fourier transforms , and reportedly correctly recognises at least 5000 words using 24 various font styles , including cursive ones . |
| 8 | The brewery uses water from the Taihu , one of the lakes in China which is protected from pollution . |
| 9 | ( c ) To transfer a value from one store location to another in a one-address computer , the programmer uses a pair of load and store instructions , with an accumulator as an intermediate location . |
| 10 | By this , I do not mean that the animal uses neurones , whereas the computer uses transistors . |
| 11 | This is the memory that the computer uses to store instructions and information while a program is being run.program is being run ( carried out ) . |
| 12 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 13 | The House of Lords in Smith approved the decision in Gillespie on its facts , but indicated that generally negligence liability will only be excluded if the contract uses the word " negligence " or some synonym for it . |
| 14 | The most common type of situation where this will occur is where the buyer uses his credit card to buy an item costing over £100 . |
| 15 | If the buyer uses a form provided by the seller , for instance , in the seller 's catalogue , that form can refer to the seller 's terms and will amount to an offer to contract on those terms . |
| 16 | The vetting does n't stop once membership has been approved : the BSIA uses two independent inspectorates — the Manned Services Inspectorate , and the National Approval Council for Security systems ( NACoSS ) , to carry out regular inspections of member companies . |
| 17 | The midsole uses a combination of PU in the rearfoot and compression moulded EVA in the forefoot . |
| 18 | Reality becomes so painful that the sufferer uses his or her substance or process of addiction in order to survive the emotional carnage . |
| 19 | The university uses about 7000 dogs and 2000 cats per year . |
| 20 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 21 | The course uses specialists facilities and draws upon the expertise of lecturers at both the Polytechnic of Central London and South Bank Polytechnic . |
| 22 | The Course uses 12 different paired timetable slots for most modules ( see Appendix 1 ) and it is , in theory , possible to examine all modules over six working days from Saturday of week 10 through to Friday of week 11 with two examination sessions a day . |
| 23 | To try to make sense out of the vast amount of raw material intercepted each day the NSA uses computers that are programmed to search for key ‘ trigger ’ words , names , and numbers amongst the hundreds of thousands of circuits being continuously analysed . |
| 24 | At run time , given a tagged sequence of words the parser uses the training data to assess how likely a combination of adjacent tags were to form a noun phrase . |
| 25 | The side uses the British Gas sports ground at Acton for home matches and normally plays on a Wednesday or Thursday evening during the season . |
| 26 | 2 Maintaining his hold on the attacker , the defender uses his block to pull the attacker onto a rising knee to the stomach . |
| 27 | 3 Jumping in quickly behind the attacker , the defender uses his left arm for a backfist strike to the rib cage . |
| 28 | The psychoanalyst uses a more general framework of knowledge derived from other analyses , and applies the more general concepts to the individual case so as to make sense of the development of the person . |
| 29 | The research uses two experimental techniques for producing natural dialogue . |
| 30 | The research uses these two sources of data to explain local variations within each city in school-leaver unemployment and in the type of employment obtained . |