Example sentences of "they [vb past] to use the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the number of these specialists increased , they tried to use the idea of evolution as a means of giving their disciplines a vague unity , thus creating the first science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 2 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 3 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 4 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 5 | They decided to use the skills of their workers in making cloth and sacking from jute , which they imported from East Bengal , now Bangladesh . |
| 6 | They decided to use the media on their terms . |
| 7 | They had to use the guards " radio , which was patched through to army headquarters and thence to the Majles . |
| 8 | Well it so happened that two of the aircrewmen were burnt enough , not real serious , but burned enough that they had to use the ground spare from another squadron , they could n't go on the mission . |
| 9 | Leapor 's poetry makes clear that she suffered many distressing lectures from her father , yet if the poet and her father had reached an understanding , indeed , if they intended to use the money from the subscription to buy their freehold and have security for their life together , Landry 's interpretation of this episode is simply captious . |