Example sentences of "use it [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 2 | He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in . |
| 3 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 4 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 5 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 6 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 7 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 8 | The Life of Guthlac uses it to describe Aethelred , king of the Mercians ( ch. 1 ) . |
| 9 | The astonishing image manipulation routines will have you drawing until the early hours , we have already used it to manipulate some of the pictures shown in this section . |
| 10 | You can use it to shoot heavy balls of metal from large guns . |
| 11 | You can also use it to make brief notes/ reminders and for keeping essential telephone numbers . |
| 12 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 13 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 14 | You can use it to run all your ordinary software , just like any other notebook ( it 's a bit expensive , but the price will come down ) . |
| 15 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 16 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
| 17 | Therefore where an otherwise innocent article is concerned it can only become an offensive weapon if the accused intended to use it to cause personal injury . |
| 18 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 19 | If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend . |
| 20 | Sybase wants to use it to develop next-generation object-oriented point-and-click administration tools that will appear in Sybase Control Server products , as part of System 10 , next year including SA Companion , SQL Monitor , Configurator and Backup Server . |
| 21 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 22 | They use it to eliminate those candidates they feel are totally unsuitable . |
| 23 | Just as Marx criticised the suggestion that we could found a theory on universal human needs , he now rejects the idea that we can introduce an independently defined notion of economic practice and use it to explain other aspects of society . |
| 24 | Barro and Gordon ( 1983 ) consider this analysis in more depth and use it to explain certain other macroeconomic phenomena such as the rising trend in unemployment and inflation , and the use of apparently ineffective countercyclical monetary policy by a number of governments . |
| 25 | The two approaches , he claims , share the same essential insight but use it to tackle different questions . |
| 26 | In the extreme case it is possible to use the same file that created the page on a page printer and use it to generate true phototypeset quality results . |
| 27 | They use it to make industrial bearings , and even springs . |
| 28 | Remove any excess adhesive and use it to make good the mitres and joints . |
| 29 | well that 's er , er sort of oat meal , porridge , why I use it to make some oat meal crunchies |
| 30 | Well , yes , it can provide some need , but the simplest way in this country would be use it to provide domestic hot water . |