Example sentences of "[vb past] to use [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She confirmed that when seeing each other they always tried to use separate entrances and exits . |
| 2 | However , a problem arose when one tried to use such theories to construct a model of the atom . |
| 3 | In 1815 , during the making of the Vienna settlement , both the Russian and the Habsburg ambassadors in London tried to use British newspapers to arouse opposition to Castlereagh 's policies and weaken his position in the negotiations . |
| 4 | In his first public appearance since his election , the President-elect , Fernando Collor de Mello , on Dec. 22 , 1989 , ruled out any plans to bring forward his inauguration from March 15 , 1990 , and promised to use fiscal and administrative reforms to deal with the problem of inflation , including privatization and the dismissal of superfluous civil servants . |
| 5 | The referee , however , allowed play to go on with Everton prostrate and protesting and when the cross came over the defence seemed to use less than legal means to stop Chapman reaching it . |
| 6 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 7 | Erm , when I really learnt to use this myself , in the computer room go along there for , half an hour one Friday , and have a look at it , because you might , in your second assignment possibly like to , to use this data in some way . |
| 8 | The Labour Party came to use that quite a lot . |
| 9 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 10 | The Labour councils sought to use low fares as both a part of their overall planning policies and a means of redistributing income in favour of lower income groups . |
| 11 | In 1941 Hitler sought to use Hungarian territory for his attack on Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | Like their opponents , these anti-Nazis had stressed Europe 's cultural heritage ( rather as Germany 's 19th-century philosophers had stressed Germany 's culture and its superiority over the French ) and sought to use this as a political model . |
| 13 | Er it does n't mean that you always got to use simple language . |
| 14 | The UN relief authorities planned to use five aircraft to transport 10,000 tonnes of food a month . |
| 15 | The course planned to use some experimental learning and group work exercises , both of which were likely to be new concepts to the participants . |
| 16 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 17 | This gave rise to speculation that Suchard planned to use these funds to launch another takeover bid , possibly for Cadbury Schweppes . |
| 18 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 19 | Although the technology existed to use these constructs as hosts for human personas , this was yet another procedure outlawed by Tech-Green . |
| 20 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 21 | Then during the 19505 , the searchers began to use high-powered microscopes on some particularly enigmatic rocks . |
| 22 | What happened was that speakers gradually and variably began to use open [ α : ] in environments where [ a : ] had formerly been used : the process was one of substitution rather than change sensu stricto . |
| 23 | About this time some members of the Scottish field staff began to use petrological microscopes to identify the rocks from their mapping areas . |
| 24 | This " cooling-off period " would , however , ease the Grand Duchy 's labour market shortages , which needed to use cross-border workers to fill the bulk of new jobs . |
| 25 | The Sikorsky 's commander reported that the helicopter was heavy and that he needed to use high power ( varying between 75 and 95 per cent torque ) to hover-taxi . |
| 26 | Women at risk of becoming pregnant were accepted only if they undertook to use effective contraceptive measures . |
| 27 | Mr Prior has been involved in planning new kitchens while working in major restaurants and hotel groups , so he decided to use all his experience when it came to his own establishment . |
| 28 | Metabolism of butyrate was optimal at 1 mM ( Fig 3 ) and for this reason we decided to use 1 mM butyrate for the remainder of the study . |
| 29 | In the end , we decided to use that unscripted version . ’ |
| 30 | Requests by bureaux for the supply of CPAG 's Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement by John Mesher had been increasing and so the IPG decided to use this opportunity to survey which reference books the bureaux used in practice as social security reference books . |