Example sentences of "use the word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most ‘ hooligans ’ use the word in a flattering sense to describe the ‘ hardest ’ members of their own group . |
| 2 | When we use the word ‘ sacrament ’ , what do we mean ? |
| 3 | Their flimsy ruse blown , British and continental federalists try the unconvincing tactic of denying that the French and Germans mean ‘ federal ’ when they use the word , saying it means something else in other languages . |
| 4 | The sense in which I use the word ‘ faith ’ here is different from both Wesley and Locke . |
| 5 | ‘ Not in a laboratory , if you use the word to mean a place full of test tubes and retorts and animals in cages . |
| 6 | They rarely use the word ‘ I ’ , generally calling themselves by their own names , and they have difficulty in seeing themselves or other people as people , rather than objects . |
| 7 | I use the word not in its snobbish sense , but as a scientist uses it . |
| 8 | Notice , I use the word ‘ health ’ . |
| 9 | Why do people use the word as an insult ? |
| 10 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 11 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 12 | We should beware of those who use the word glibly about a state of mind which has no social dimension . |
| 13 | A simple example will suffice : many people when writing use the word ‘ commence ’ rather than ‘ begin ’ . |
| 14 | But when people use the word ‘ chemicals ’ that is not what they usually mean . |
| 15 | Its uses are various ( a ‘ fart-catcher ’ is a footman who walks behind ; a ‘ fart-sucker ’ is a parasite ; ‘ like a fart in a bottle ’ indicates flustered agitation ; ‘ do n't fart about ’ means stop fooling ; and ‘ a silly fart ’ is a contemptuous description of a silly fool ) , but it is still in its original and anatomical sense that we use the word most frequently . |
| 16 | This rationalism ( I use the word here in a much wider sense than suggested by ‘ rationalism ’ as opposed to ‘ empiricism ’ ) attempts not only to use reason as a tool but to go further and make reason guarantee itself . |
| 17 | I use the word ‘ disease ’ loosely here as , as we shall see in a moment , it may not be attributed directly to a disease infection . |
| 18 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 19 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 20 | It now looks likely that this will not happen — a great RAF institution , and I use the word with care , will have passed away almost without notice … |
| 21 | Perhaps one of the most remarkable uses of tools either of us has ever witnessed was the result of a remarkable piece of thinking — we use the word deliberately — by a Japanese macaque . |
| 22 | On this theory , then , when I use the word ‘ I ‘ , I know what ‘ I ’ means by description , and it is described as meaning that bundle of mental states of which my use of the word is one member . |
| 23 | But Wittgenstein asks us to ‘ consider well how we use the word ‘ recognised ’ ’ ( 202 ) . |
| 24 | People use the word ‘ stress ’ to refer to both the external pressures and demands they are subject to , and the effects that such stressful circumstances have on their performance , feelings and health . |
| 25 | But that is mostly not what they mean when they use the word stress . |
| 26 | She promises that she will ‘ Never use the word ‘ subject ’ . |
| 27 | Instead [ she will ] use the word ‘ participant ’ , and ‘ include data about myself in the research , as one of the participants ’ , as if equality between subjects and psychologists was simply a matter of presenting more data and using more liberal words ( 1986 : 29 ) . |
| 28 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 29 | People who say this , like me , always use the word ‘ kids ’ in the belief that it sounds open and democratic and leaps generation gaps at a bound . |
| 30 | This is the new , raunchy Kylie ( I use the word ‘ raunchy ’ in its broadest possible sense ) and ‘ Let's Get To It ’ is basically eight desperate attempts at funkiness with two token ballads thrown in for good measure . |