Example sentences of "use [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices . |
| 2 | The word processor package which I 'm using to write this book has a couple of games built into it — partly for light relief , no doubt , but also to give newcomers the opportunity to play with the system , to get confident in using the tools . |
| 3 | At school I sometimes used to get better marks than him , but that was when he chose not to exert himself . |
| 4 | Clinton favours national health spending caps and managed care networks to keep health costs from rising faster than average incomes , and the play or pay concept ( whereby employers either provide employees with healthcare benefits or pay the government a tax that it uses to provide medical benefits ) to guarantee universal health care coverage . |
| 5 | Carbon has four electrons that it uses to form chemical bonds . |
| 6 | And so on , right to the very end : ‘ As each story [ the reviewer is now only talking about Mr Herriot ] grinds to its predictable punchline , it is as if Herriot has ground a slightly stronger dose of the Nembutal that he uses to dope recalcitrant patients into each successive page . |
| 7 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 8 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 9 | One of the examples that Jencks uses to make this point is that of IQ . |
| 10 | This policy would be used to stimulate aggregate demand to reduce the unemployment caused by these structural changes . |
| 11 | The resolution of differences in this or any other way became still more unlikely when in January 1991 military force was used to restore central authority in Latvia and Lithuania on the pretext that the Soviet Constitution was being violated ( in particular , that the civil rights of the non-indigenous population were being infringed and that the call-up of recruits into the armed forces was being impeded ) . |
| 12 | With this row added to the tableau , primal feasibility is violated and the dual simplex method is used to restore primal feasibility . |
| 13 | The identical method used to breed the parents was used to spawn this pair — and they did spawn . |
| 14 | it shows how the centrefold effect can be used to embrace wide landscapes ; how a minimum of colour can gain maximum effect , and how a few lines of scribble can hold a lot of memory . |
| 15 | However , the initial investigation had revealed that there was some potential for the use of a computer to support the primary functions ( ie identifying and meeting resident needs ) , which in addition could be used to support other tasks , such as processing financial transactions and records . |
| 16 | If one read the linguistic signs as pointing to something vaguely beyond the poem , to ‘ Something evermore about to be ’ ( Prelude 1805 , vi , 542 ) , then the poetry could be used to support innumerable creeds . |
| 17 | It is necessarily of the same quality as the data used to support managerial control , because it is that data , used for a different purpose ; and because the data is of a type already in currency , its use needs no special explanation or defence . |
| 18 | Pick Systems delivered , and realised in the process that the serial-port support could equally well be used to support dumb terminals . |
| 19 | To this end , Northern , Tandem and Cincinnati Bell will jointly establish integration and test facilities for equipment from the three companies , which will also be used to support smooth deployment of new network services . |
| 20 | The information will be used to support British contributions to international programmes on the assessment of hazardous chemicals , including a proposed European Community regulation . |
| 21 | India , which had removed the final contingent of Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) troops from Sri Lanka in March 1990 [ see p. 37316 ] , expressed concern for the plight of Tamil civilians but made it clear that it would not permit its territory to be used to support militant activity . |
| 22 | In the National Certificate in Scotland there are already such generic units and these can be used to support occupational programmes . |
| 23 | It raised $20,200,000 , which the government said would be used to support agrarian reform and earthquake relief projects . |
| 24 | Another argument used to support indirect taxes on welfare grounds is that they can be used to combat ‘ externalities ’ . |
| 25 | Except I think just to emphasize one or two minor issues but the savings from last year , that was the underspendings from ninety two ninety three were , as you recall last year er used to support this year 's budget er those savings underspending are no longer available and therefore have been taken out of the consideration The staff costs for T S G schemes that are mentioned at the bottom of page five erm , the programme this year which is actually listed over the page at table two does erm indicate that erm we are now contemplating link road and bypass next year and staff available are needed to complete that work or fortunately we 've been able to secure a start on which enables some of the staff to be transferred to work on that scheme . |
| 26 | Some of the arguments and assumptions used to support this line of thinking are misleading . |
| 27 | If it is invested in physical capital for the public sector or used to retire outstanding government debt , it is not at all imprudent . |
| 28 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 29 | Warehouses were used to accommodate full-scale models of rooms . |
| 30 | Slim-line tension rods , which are telescopic , are used to carry net curtains neatly without any fixing brackets , but they can only be used within a window reveal as they spring out to grip the sides . |