Example sentences of "use it [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 10 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 11 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 12 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 100–4 , uses it in this sense ; see also Nolan ( 1973 ) . |
| 17 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 18 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 19 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 20 | I have since used it with great success at children 's parties . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 23 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 24 | In some lessons you might use it for five minutes . |
| 25 | The Payroll operation is particularly sensitive , and although it would be desirable to have only one X-25 link for the organization , the demands of security , and reduction in cabling costs , suggest that an additional X-25 link be established in 1993/94 through one of the file-servers , so that any networked PC can use it for external communications . |
| 26 | Now , the ball seems to retain its shine and the fast bowlers can use it for lengthier periods . ’ |
| 27 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 28 | you know , you could use it for quick notes |
| 29 | It is so versatile : you can use it for everyday cooking and for special and festive occasions in starters , main courses , salads and puddings . |
| 30 | Others who lack our inborn ethics would use it for evil ends . |