Example sentences of "use of [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | well-defined responsibility for making the best use of resources including a critical scrutiny of output and value for money ; and |
| 2 | David Clarke suggested use of resources over a very wide area by the lake village at Glastonbury in the Iron Age , and John Coles suggests that the pattern of land use in the Levels shown by Michael Williams for the medieval period probably has a prehistoric ancestry . |
| 3 | Management skills and systems development to ensure efficient use of resources in a more dispersed service and better targeting of health need |
| 4 | In the absolute nuclear sub-type , on the other hand , whereas the last two conditions hold inheritance rights are different ; there are no precise rules , and frequent use of wills as a consequence . |
| 5 | ( For the purposes of this paper , the words ‘ hautbois ’ , ‘ oboe ’ , or ‘ bassoon ’ merely refer to double-reed instruments , without invoking the question of whether these were shawms , Baroque-style instruments , or something in between on the evolutionary scale. ) 8 An examination of livrets for Lully 's ballets shows that the use of woodwinds in a group , as they are found here , is typical . |
| 6 | Lord Cousfield said that although McLaren had been cleared of the most serious charge , the court always regarded the criminal use of firearms as a serious matter |
| 7 | This was common to much of England but the local feature was the use of flints as a building material rather than the freestone carved out of quarries elsewhere . |
| 8 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 9 | They spoke of the loneliness and sense of abandonment , and the way in which this interfered with the use of tears as a healing experience . |
| 10 | It may be argued that the use of premises as a disco or late-night entertainment venue , especially if such premises are in a residential area , may amount to a nuisance to adjoining occupiers . |
| 11 | The use of cases with a history of disease , rather than incident cases , is fraught with systematic biases . |
| 12 | The use of faeces as a sample can give false negative results as a variety of chemicals from the stool will prevent Taq polymerase from working and inhibit a PCR . |
| 13 | 1 Communications theory : the use of models as a means of examining the relationships between the elements of communication ; |
| 14 | The use of worksheets on a site or museum visit evokes varied responses among teachers and museum education officers . |
| 15 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 16 | A more specific histological test depends on the use of conjugates of a chitinase with fluorescent dyestuffs ( Benjaminson , 1969 ) . |
| 17 | The impact of cuts was dulled by a return to the use of rates as a source of funds and , in some cases , a shift to increasing income from charges . |
| 18 | Phototherapy evolved between myself and Rosy martin out of the use of techniques from a range of therapies , plus photographic skills . |
| 19 | The proposed ‘ remedies ’ included : a multi-party political system ; a government answerable to an elected parliament , not to one political party ; use of referenda as a form of direct democracy ; autonomous local governments ; the creation of the office of state president ; an independent judiciary ; an end to censorship ; a supreme auditing office to inspect state finances ; constitutional guarantees to defend the rights of ethnic and religious minorities ; and a welfare state , founded on a market-based economy . |
| 20 | Simon Watney refers to the effects of videos produced by Gay Men 's Health Crisis in New York , which eroticise the use of condoms as a form of ‘ pornographic healing ’ . |
| 21 | He added that they would argue in court that the promotion of the use of condoms as a way of preventing the spread of AIDS was a dangerous message and could have the opposite effect . |
| 22 | Sainsbury 's works with suppliers to find ways of reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum . |
| 23 | ‘ We are trying to minimise pollution and improve quality by keeping the use of pesticides at a minimum . ’ |
| 24 | His whimsical friend , Aubrey , was also strongly against corporal punishment , although he allowed the use of thumbscrews as a last resort ! 18 Indeed , Locke 's book encapsulates what was clearly a new and growing attitude towards child-rearing and education which was to improve the lot of the child in the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The first of the case studies we describe is of the use of robots in a West German factory and gives strong support to the de-skilling hypothesis described in the previous chapter . |
| 26 | She met students at work in the Department of Mechanical , Manufacturing and Software Engineering , and staff and post-graduate students from Computer Integrated Manufacturing demonstrated their research work on the use of robots in a manufacturing environment . |
| 27 | 2 An insight into the use of computers as a decision support tool for management . |
| 28 | Evidence suggests a significant growth has occurred in the use of computers for a variety of planning purposes . |
| 29 | Such a system would demand a truly interactive use of computers in a way that allows the very different capabilities of the computer and the human mind to be used to the full . |
| 30 | The use of econometrics as a regular part of the marketing function is growing fast and in exactly the way described above , that is , using it to measure the return on investment . |