Example sentences of "they used the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this process they used the risk-premium version of the CAPM : . |
| 2 | They used the great rivers of northern and western France to penetrate far into the heart of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 3 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 4 | In the writer 's experience of recording the practices of old farm horsemen the frog 's or toad 's bone was nearly always linked with the jading of a horse , and they used the repellent substances with the bone , which was either powdered or whole , in this practice . |
| 5 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 6 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 7 | They used the gentle touch to minimise the pressure on the 25-year-old woman following her horrific experience . |
| 8 | They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised . |
| 9 | That would explain why they used the International Herald Tribune in the photograph . |
| 10 | . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop . |
| 11 | They used the 12 month deposit rate for local authorities as their estimate of the riskless rate of return and the FT 650 index as a proxy for the market portfolio . |
| 12 | They spoke the Serbian language and , as members of the Eastern Church , they used the Slavonic liturgy . |
| 13 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 14 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 15 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
| 16 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 17 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 18 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
| 19 | An hour later they used the same tactics to gain entry to the other half of the camp . |
| 20 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 21 | They used the Greek orders , adapted them to their own taste , added two more variations and employed them constructively in temples and basilicas but more often , especially in later work , only decoratively when the arch mode of construction was used , for example , in the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 22 | The position was illogical , both because classical law had allowed many wordings which were far from precatory , and because the simplest way of distinguishing civil-law institutions was to see whether they used the proper wording . |