Example sentences of "use a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schwarz and Laatsch ( 1991 ) again used a simultaneous equations model , and applied it to data for the MMI from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 2 | We used a floating thermometer . |
| 3 | The original American ‘ Airknocker ’ — so called because it sounds exactly like an old vintage motorcycle — was powered by Aeronca 's own E-113C 40 hp engine , but the British C-100 version used a licence-built version of the famous horizontally-opposed twin , built by J.A.Prestwick Ltd. and designated the JAP-J99 . |
| 4 | The nursery school used a modified version of the SOED questionnaire for Staff ( Nursery Form ) which made comparison with the parents ' views easier . |
| 5 | Gravesend used a cumbersome lever operated track brake , these were not required and were removed before the cars went into service on the S.M.E.T. The fixed trolleyhead was replaced by a ‘ Wood 's ’ swivelling head as standard on the South Met. |
| 6 | They used a two-stage process to test the APT . |
| 7 | On the whole , however , it is more likely that they used a comparative test , tying the two competing ropes end to end , in series , and breaking them by means of a capstan . |
| 8 | Pieces in this category used a restricted range of basic harmonic and melodic materials , favoured improvisation as a means of building structures , and achieved their most characteristic results in live performance . |
| 9 | The men used a black Vauxhall Carlton estate , registration XXI 7255 , hijacked from Snugville Street in the Shankill . |
| 10 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 11 | Mick Dunne landed three weighing 3lb 14ozs , 3lbs and 2lbs on a Bibio , and Mick Yeats and Sean Morgan each used a Black Pennell to take trout of 3lb 4ozs and 3lb 12ozs respectively . |
| 12 | We used a black chemical to start with but in order to that to help that we needed some heat . |
| 13 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 14 | It was a trick the Han used a great deal . |
| 15 | Hemler and Longstaff ( 1991 ) used a general equilibrium model to derive a pricing equation for futures prices ( see Chapter 5.3.24 ) . |
| 16 | The thieves used a blue Vauxhall Astra car stolen from Middlesbrough in their venture . |
| 17 | In connection with this finding , however , it should be noted that , as stated earlier , maternal age and birth order effects change with decreasing overall infant mortality ( and , thus , with socio-economic development ) , a fact that was not taken into account in that analysis ; also , the authors used a rough classification that , for instance , lumped maternal ages 10–19 , and those 35 and over , which blurred the probably stronger maleffects of very young and very old maternal ages . |
| 18 | I picked up a number 8 brush and with bluey brown paint I drew the windows , and used a rough line to tell me where the plant at the front was . |
| 19 | I used a medium-brown velvet background and chose all the contents of the picture to blend accordingly . |
| 20 | La Guardia , a Republican , used a cross-party platform to break the power of the Democrats ' Tammany Hall machine . |
| 21 | For our experiments we used a cubical tank of water seeded with silicon carbide grit of fairly uniform size , which was cooled uniformly from the top . |
| 22 | This analysis used a bootstrapping technique and examined 1,631 base pairs . |
| 23 | This work , described as a visual language approach to GIS , used a visual programming language to define map operations . |
| 24 | The idea of ‘ Meaning as use ’ associated with the later Wittgenstein was never meant to imply that if enough people used a certain expression it must be true . |
| 25 | Chan , Chan and Karolyi ( 1991 ) used a bivariate GARCH model to study the relationship between five-minute returns for the S&P500 between 1984 and 1989 . |
| 26 | ‘ They needed something to sell the show , and used a young girl in skimpy bathing costumes to draw people to watch , ’ said Kathy , 16 , who played child bride Fizz . |
| 27 | The first condition used a visual-judgement task in which subjects had to say whether a word such as " bury " looked like any of the words in the following sentence : Yesterday the grand jury adjourned . |
| 28 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 29 | An alternative procedure would be to ask a lot of speakers to say a list of sentences in different ways according to labels provided by the analyst , and see what intonational features are found in common ( for example , one might count how many speakers used a low head in saying something in a ‘ hostile ’ way ) . |
| 30 | However , both these studies used a low resolution technique to type a complex tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism , and thus alleles assigned the same fragment length may be genetically heterogeneous . |