Example sentences of "use it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 2 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 3 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 4 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 5 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 6 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 7 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 8 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 9 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 10 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 11 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 12 | Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 100–4 , uses it in this sense ; see also Nolan ( 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 14 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 15 | I have since used it with great success at children 's parties . |
| 16 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 17 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 18 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 19 | It is so versatile : you can use it for everyday cooking and for special and festive occasions in starters , main courses , salads and puddings . |
| 20 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 21 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 22 | After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’ |
| 23 | The tendency to translate English passive structures literally into a variety of target languages which either have no passive voice as such or which would normally use it with less frequency is often criticized by linguists and by those involved in training translators . |
| 24 | This is because the system is so complicated that no historian could use it without explicit support from the AI project group . |
| 25 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 26 | So maybe we 'd use it in that situation . |
| 27 | And now Kenco is leading the market by introducing a new dimension to its coffee — it is now a single grind , which means you can use it in any type of coffee-making system without any loss of taste or quality . |
| 28 | because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or , |
| 29 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 30 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |