Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the people in my school use it . |
| 2 | An example of the stunning effectiveness of this colour combination can be seen in my design using a very dark background and the brightest red roses that I could find ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 3 | The literature of user education in higher education frequently laments the lack of preparation of incoming secondary education pupils in their ability to use libraries and information . |
| 4 | And the University of Tokyo has already succeeded in developing a practical self-repairing photocopier — good news for anyone who is frequently frustrated in their attempts to use one . |
| 5 | C. Both the climate and the soils have guided Mr O'Rea and other farmers in their decision to use most fields for grass . |
| 6 | ( ii ) To encourage subject departments to inspire pupils with an interest in their subject to use the Library/Resource Centre to further their knowledge of the subject and to enable them to use the skills of the subject , in particular by finding its concepts meaningful for the whole of life . |
| 7 | The challenge to the ‘ … purist aesthetics of modernism ’ issued by these contemporary women artists lies in their willingness to use paint to reference the interplay between emotional , intellectual , cultural and social facets of lived reality . |
| 8 | Once it spreads into other functions , it acquires what we usually call ‘ prestige ’ , in the sense that those who wish to advance in life consider it to be in their interests to use standard-like forms . |
| 9 | The first relates to differences between political actors and groups in their abilities to use , influence or indeed manipulate the media ; the second to the political consequences of these actions . |
| 10 | Cleaner shrimps are opportunistic feeders and not above attacking filter-feeding sea cucumbers such as sea apples ( Pseudocolochirus axiologus ) to rob them of food trapped in their tentacles using the same ‘ nit picking ’ techniques they adopt to clean their clients . |
| 11 | This was ‘ due entirely to the schoolmasters who will not permit that children in their schools use any but the proper names ’ . |
| 12 | Her great success has lain in her willingness to use the vagueness and flexibility of the Constitution to her own ends . |
| 13 | After an initial greeting of a visitor , tell your dog to sit in its bed using the command ‘ bed ’ . |
| 14 | Scottish Hydro-Electric controls the water level in its dams using the latest information and forecasts available . |
| 15 | A two-year-old motor-cruiser with a litre of two-year-old diesel in its tanks used it up while trying to separate the crashed boats , and so joined them . |
| 16 | Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) " |
| 17 | Indeed , it could be said that the secret of his success lay not so much in his ability to use to his advantage the divisions within his own forces as in his perception of conservative Spain 's deep-seated desire for a leader who would restore and conserve the country 's identity as a great world power . |
| 18 | Braham 's importance lies essentially in his ability to use mundane or ‘ innocent ’ objects as vehicles which carry the much heavier load . |
| 19 | Already prone in his diaries to use the superlative it was indeed somewhat of a problem in trying to entice people to see the beauties of the Lake District , not to use repeatedly such expressions as ‘ the grandest view of all ’ , ‘ one of the finest assemblages in England ’ , over and over again . |
| 20 | Again , signer 2 differed notably from the others in his inability to use two lexical items simultaneously . |
| 21 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 22 | ( A fourth possibility , others have suggested , is that Gravier never was on the airplane at all , but he sent an aide in his place using his name to deliver a package in which there was a bomb . |
| 23 | He has to be able to sit upright in his chair using his trunk muscles , without pulling or pushing himself up using his unaffected arm . |
| 24 | It is philosophy 's task to bring to light the roles of these terms , embedded in our language-games used of animals . |
| 25 | IF Europe is to succeed in an increasingly competitive world economy , then we have to make a qualitative leap in our ability to use modern technologies , production processes and telecommunications . |
| 26 | Hypothetically , such an effect could have occurred in our experiments using diets that differed in their fat composition . |
| 27 | Nearly half the students in our sample used the library for this purpose , and it was the main aim of the students who thronged the libraries at break times . |
| 28 | Everyone in our district used flat hand carts when they moved house — unless they were ‘ doing a moonlight ’ , when their chattels went on a push cart , pram or whatever else was handy . |
| 29 | It 's lack of confidence in your ability to use a new approach that stops you changing . |
| 30 | Never start a fire in your house using coloured newspapers or magazines , as they release lead into the air . |