Example sentences of "were using [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , no doubt about it , in nineteen seventy two , seventy one seventy two we , we went out on a limb really with that , erm when all other Fire Brigades were using telephone systems , the Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Service went out and did that . |
| 2 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 3 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 4 | Between 1870 and 1918 it appeared to eugenicists concerned with finding ways of breeding a better race that the wrong class of people were using birth control . |
| 5 | The movies were telling stories and , of course , there were political values implicit in these stories , but in general the movies were using society rather than engaging it directly . |
| 6 | 10 What number is 7 less than The agents were using algebra to keep their numbers secret , by using letters to stand in place of numbers . |
| 7 | As early as the 17th century apothecaries were using liquorice extracts to treat ‘ inflamed stomachs ’ just as the ancient Chinese had done centuries before . |
| 8 | In a school in Birmingham , for example , children who were recent arrivals in this country and whose English was poor were using word processors to learn how to cope with the demands of organising a holiday through a travel agent , particularly how to write letters asking for information . |
| 9 | According to Vergil , Gloucester announced to a meeting of the council that the Woodvilles were using witchcraft against him and then formally denounced Hastings for his involvement before calling in men at arms to arrest him . |
| 10 | According to Vergil , Gloucester announced to a meeting of the council that the Woodvilles were using witchcraft against him and then formally denounced Hastings for his involvement before calling in men at arms to arrest him . |
| 11 | The priestesses ' complete abandonment to the dance , as depicted in some of the ring images , shows that they were using dance , just as the dervishes were to use it much later , to induce a state of religious ecstasy . |
| 12 | ‘ You were using surgery on your patients in the asylum . ’ |
| 13 | This could happen , for instance , if one were using faculty lists of students as the sample frame and there were certain students in special departments who were not in any faculty . |
| 14 | The main themes of this reform were to reduce the power of PACs , which were using election money to attain legislative influence . |
| 15 | Meanwhile two stonemasons inside his brain were using claw chisels to cut their way out through his eyes . |
| 16 | It was announced last night that urgent talks are to be held with public health officials after a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers showed 2,858 out of 5,622 restaurants , pubs , and other outlets investigated were using microwave ovens designed for home kitchens . |
| 17 | When Captain Cook encountered them in 1778 the Eskimos of Bering Strait were using iron knives and wearing glass beads . |
| 18 | None of the three bombs exploded because the Argentinians were using World War Two propeller bombs which need to be dropped from a great height to detonate . |
| 19 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |
| 20 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |
| 21 | What could not be allowed was the suggestion that major characters were using language to deceive and self-present in expedient ways which suited political needs rather than the way they ‘ really were ’ . |
| 22 | Operators were using punch machines and then transferring the results on to tape . |
| 23 | Of the 106 authorities who responded and could be used for analysis , seventy-eight were described as using some form of standardised intelligence test and nearly all were using examination procedures to measure attainment in English and arithmetic , though the variety of standard , ‘ tried out ’ and internal tests was wider . |
| 24 | Very soon farmers were using clay tiles , which , stamped with the word ‘ drain ’ , were exempted in 1826 from the tax on other clay products . |
| 25 | While some observed the decision , others were using fax machines to send details through to Scotland Yard . |
| 26 | There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables , recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets , long before Hipparchus . |
| 27 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 28 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 29 | By 1826 no less than ten newspaper presses were using Applegath & Cowper printing machines . |
| 30 | Insofar as GPs were using section referrals as a method of social control , it was more frequently upon these women . |