Example sentences of "to use the word " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 2 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 3 | He writes about it in unforgettably dramatic terms and with the sublime egoism ( to use the word purely , with no pejorative sense ) of a man alone with God . |
| 4 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 5 | Caroline Spry , the Channel 4 commissioning editor responsible for series like Out on Tuesday and Women Call the Shots , thinks it 's no longer possible to use the word in its old sense any more ; most of the other women I spoke to agreed with her . |
| 6 | I think that most people would feel that is the right way to use the word , and yet if the animal is anaesthetised it is not suffering . |
| 7 | But there is , however , one single paddle stroke where I am willing to use the word ‘ wrong ’ and that is the low brace . |
| 8 | Watkins ceased to use the word ‘ ley ’ towards the end of his life , and caution should be exercised in using the element as evidence of an old straight track . |
| 9 | It is important to use the word ‘ local ’ as much as possible . |
| 10 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 11 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 12 | As has been noted before , he followed the Beowulf -poet in being very loath to use the word ‘ heathen ’ , reserving it twice for Denethor and by implication the Black Númenoreans . |
| 13 | In fact this is the only Gospel to use the word ‘ Church ’ ( Matt. |
| 14 | I hesitate to use the word ‘ basic ’ , as a machine with a punchcard patterning system and which will knit Fair Isle , tuck , slip and punch lace is not a basic machine . |
| 15 | The stock objection to Locke 's identification of the ‘ idea ’ that is the meaning of the word ‘ pain' with the ‘ idea ’ , the feeling or sensation , that is caused in us when we eat too much manna is that what someone needs , in order to be able to use the word ‘ pain' meaningfully , is not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' . |
| 16 | One does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the word ‘ here ’ meaningfully . |
| 17 | In other words , are they right in thinking that a person must know something he calls ‘ I ’ , either by acquaintance or by description , to use the word ‘ I ’ meaningfully ? |
| 18 | Thirty-five years ago my lecturer did not see fit to use the word profession . |
| 19 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 20 | NullPort=None : Tells Windows to use the word ‘ None ’ when a printer is assigned to ‘ no port ’ in the Control Panel . |
| 21 | Maazel is not ashamed to use the word ‘ love ’ in relation to Puccini . |
| 22 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 23 | For any limited company exempt from the obligation to use the word ‘ limited ’ as part of its name , the fact that it is a limited company . |
| 24 | " Concentrate on winning God 's approval , on being a workman with nothing to be ashamed of , and who knows how to use the word of truth to the best advantage . " |
| 25 | He usually employs the work kivas , which literally means animal fleece , but occasionally — especially in the scenes where Helen is being entertained — he chooses to use the word tap e s instead . |
| 26 | Yeah , try to use the word position . |
| 27 | Try to use the wo , try not to use the word position . |
| 28 | After the EDC débâcle they were reluctant to move quickly , reluctant even to use the word ‘ supranationalism ’ . |
| 29 | ( She does n't like one to use the word lucky . ) |
| 30 | I regard it as impossible to use the word ‘ any person ’ to enlarge the category of appellants against the prohibition notice beyond the recipient of the notice . |