I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a used/second-hand car (= one that is not new )
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The company locates suitable new and used cars for buyers.
an excessive use of sth
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Farmers have been criticized for their excessive use of chemical fertilizers.
(be of) limited use/value
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Unfortunately, the drug is of limited value in treating cancer.
be on/use/take heroin
cheap to run/use/maintain etc
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Gas appliances are usually cheaper to run than electric ones.
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For the employer, a part-time workforce means a cheap labour supply.
comfortable to wear/use/ride etc
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My bike isn’t very comfortable to ride.
commercial use
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The trees were planted for commercial use.
drug use/abuse (= taking drugs )
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She is being treated for drug abuse.
energy use
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30% of all our energy use is in the home.
exercise/use your veto
For external use only (= written on medicines which must be put on your skin and not swallowed )
for (your) personal use
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He bought a computer for his personal use.
go on the bus/use the bus (= travel by bus )
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It's easier to go on the bus than to drive.
heavy use
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the film’s heavy use of special effects
I could use a laugh (= I want to hear something funny to cheer me up )
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Tell me what she said - I could use a laugh.
illegal use of sth
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They were found guilty of the illegal use of confidential information.
imaginative use
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an imaginative use of computer technology
in regular use (= people used it often )
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Penn Station was in regular use until the 1960s.
indiscriminate use
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the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers
industrial use (= not to be used at home )
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cleaning products that are for industrial use only
Internet use
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The software allows parents to control children’s Internet use.
make good use of
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You should make good use of your time.
make the best use of sth
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Making the best use of space is important in any room.
make use of the facilities
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We hope students make use of the new facilities.
practical use
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Knowledge without understanding is of little practical use.
ready to use/eat etc
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The computer is now set up and ready to use.
resort to/use violence
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They were willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends.
safe to use/drink/eat etc
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The water is treated to make it safe to drink.
simple to use/make/operate etc
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The machine is very simple to use.
take/use drugs
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I think I took drugs to escape my problems.
take/use opportunity (= do something you have a chance to do )
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Several employees took the opportunity to retire early.
the efficient use of sth
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We must work towards the more efficient use of all natural resources.
the exclusive use of sth
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We had exclusive use of the house while he was away.
the use of violence
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A police spokesman said that the use of violence, while regrettable, was necessary.
use a calculator
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The children are taught to use calculators from a young age.
use a checklist
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Interviewers often use a checklist to ensure that they’ve covered everything.
use a cliché
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'Time marches on', to use the old cliché.
use a compass
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Some of the kids were learning how to use a map and compass.
use a computer
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Most people do jobs in which they have to use a computer.
use a dictionary
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We advise all our students to use a good dictionary.
use a language
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The children use their native language at home.
use a machine
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Can you use the copy machine?
use a metaphor
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To use her own metaphor, she is a caged bird who wants to fly free.
use a method ( also employ a method formal )
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Which payment method do you use when travelling?
use a name (= tell people that you have a particular name )
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She may be using a false name.
use a needle
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I don't think he even knows how to use a needle!
use a program
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The documentation explains how to use the program.
use a skill
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I am sure you can use your communication skills to get your message across.
use a strategy ( also employ a strategy formal )
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What strategies do you use to deal with these problems?
use a tactic
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We used various tactics to get their support.
use a technique ( also employ a technique formal )
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By using commercial shipbuilding techniques, the Navy hoped to reduce costs.
use a term
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a term used by psychiatrists
use a weapon
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They claim the government used chemical weapons against them.
use a word
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Be very careful how you use the word ‘natural’.
use an approach
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This approach has been used for a number of major investigations.
use an entrance
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It's quicker to use the side entrance.
use an example
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He used several examples to illustrate his point.
use an exit
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In the event of a fire, please use the emergency exit nearest to you.
use any/every means to do sth (= use any method or many methods )
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He will use any means to get what he wants.
use batteries ( also run on batteries )
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The clock runs on two 9-volt batteries.
use chemicals
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Farmers use chemicals to kill insects that would destroy their crops.
use credit
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The survey showed only 15% of people had never used credit.
use criteria
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What criteria do we use to decide whether one book is better than another?
use electricity
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The system uses electricity to heat the water.
use energy
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Washing machines use a lot of energy.
use equipment
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Mr Gomez will now demonstrate how to use the equipment safely.
use every excuse in the book (= use every possible excuse )
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He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor.
use fuel
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People need to learn how to use fuel more efficiently.
use ingredients
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Many recipes in this book use Chinese ingredients.
use magic
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By using magic, he can order the ghost of any dead person to be his servant.
use make-up
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She rarely uses make-up.
use medication
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The leaflet tells you how to use the medication correctly.
use petrol
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Try to cut your motoring costs and use less petrol.
use resources
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Modern products use fewer natural resources.
use resources ( also make use of resources )
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We must use our resources efficiently.
use sb’s name (= say their name when speaking to them )
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I didn’t know him well enough to use his first name.
use software
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Several companies have already begun using the software.
use sth as a precedent
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Latin America was afraid that the invasion of Panama would be used as a precedent.
use sth as an excuse
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She never complained or used her illness as an excuse.
use the facilities
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Guests are welcome to use all the hotel’s facilities.
use the Internet
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More and more companies are using the Internet to conduct their business.
use the library
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You can use the library before or after school.
use the lift
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It’s on the 3rd floor. Let’s use the lift .
use the phone
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Do you mind if I use your phone?
use the telephone
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May I use your telephone?
use (up) leave
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I used all my leave in the summertime.
use up/exhaust a supply
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The diver had nearly used up his supply of oxygen.
use your brain
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It’s easy if you just use your brain.
use your card
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I don’t use a card if I can pay by cash.
use your charm
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She knew when to use her charm in order to get what she wanted.
use your common sense
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If something goes wrong, just use your common sense.
use your imagination
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Musicians need to use their imagination as well as their technical skills.
use your influence
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She wasn’t afraid to use her influence to get what she wanted.
use your muscles
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Bend your knees and use your thigh muscles when picking up heavy objects.
use your position
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She can now use her position to do some good.
use your power ( also exercise (your) power formal )
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The party will use all its power and influence to raise the issue in the Senate.
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Questions have been asked about the way the police exercised their power.
use your strength
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He used all his strength to heave the door shut.
use your talents
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They have been using their artistic talents to brighten up the school.
use/apply logic
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Why do we not apply the same logic in the way we treat animals?
used scare tactics
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Employers used scare tactics to force a return to work.
used to
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He used to go to our school.
used...as a punching bag
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a young wife whose husband used her as a punching bag
use/exercise your discretion
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The judge exercised his discretion rightly to admit the evidence.
use/exploit a loophole
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Airlines may be exploiting legal loopholes in order to employ pilots trained outside the US.
Use...initiative
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Don’t keep asking me for advice. Use your initiative .
use...noddle (= think )
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It’s easy enough to do if you just use your noddle .
Use...noggin (= think )
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Use your noggin .
use...nut
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Oh come on, use your nut !
use/run/operate a system
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They use a system of grades to evaluate each hospital’s performance.
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We operate a booking system.
Use...sparingly
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Use the spices sparingly .
widespread use
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the widespread use of chemicals in agriculture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
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Ileal motility was measured by integrating the area under the pressure-time curve, during 1 minute periods, using computer software.
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Airlines for years have used computers to predict demand and set fares to maximize revenues.
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Some one who uses different computers at home and at work will need two digital signatures.
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Years ago, adults used expensive, high-powered computers at work and bought a low-end machine for the kids.
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Conventional taxonomic publications can still be produced using computers , but much more rapidly and cheaply.
drug
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The idea was tested by using drugs which produced convulsions.
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As he grew older, he used hallucinogenic drugs .
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Nineteen had used only one drug prior to heroin use, principally cannabis, the rest using a variety of drug combinations.
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It would increase mandatory penalties for drug dealers selling drugs to children or using children to sell drugs.
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If it turns out that your teenager is using drugs and has problems, you have something very painful to face.
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Therefore claims incurred where, for example, a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered.
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Over 90 percent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years.
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Around half know of some one who uses drugs .
information
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My main impressions are that it is easy to use and displays information clearly.
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It is used to display information about the customer business, the customer product, or the customer services.
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This use of probability information is susceptible to the problems of using statistical information outlined earlier and described by Sayre.
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Integration Recognition can be improved by using additional linguistic information .
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Third, we can use comparative information .
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What that experience demonstrates is that the teacher very rarely uses the voluminous information , which is nevertheless conscientiously stored and retained.
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A significant proportion of the dolphin's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system.
language
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Such experimental retrieval may be more necessary for searches using the natural language of the document.
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Jefferson never used stronger language than Carroll did against religion supPorted by law.
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The loss of Lardie Moonlight Tribal people are sometimes thought to use primitive languages .
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Fiennes has to use expressive body language and an extensive vocal palette to get his points across.
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For imagine a person crying out with pain alone in the desert: is he using a language ?
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It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.
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One can see that the task of interpreting will share similarities in its processes nomatterwhich languages are being used .
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But some investigators claim that they have taught them to use systems approaching human language in their versatility and complexity.
material
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Second, consider a project that uses a particular material .
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Team leader Alan Smith said the nursery was committed to preserving the environment so it did not use peat materials or chemicals.
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The language of continuum mechanics is increasingly being used in modern material science.
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Established in 1912, Olympus has a long tradition of good design, using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship.
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The students have been preparing for the assessments using open learning materials developed by Telford College.
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Bunns helps by using materials with a similar specification to prepare all Mr Middleditch's fertilisers.
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In the phases of large-scale antislavery mobilisation within Britain these two purposes were pursued simultaneously, though sometimes using different printed materials .
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Officials admit that another 700 firms and institutions are using hazardous radioactive material .
method
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Cast using traditional methods , the bells have the names of faithful parishioners inscribed on them.
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It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
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Contributions are determined by qualified actuaries on the basis of periodic valuations using the projected unit method .
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Earlier studies on the deposit indicated the copper ore can be treated using conventional methods .
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The most comfortable and efficient way is to use the heel-toe method .
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Standards may also vary somewhat in specificity and reproducibility according to the methods used .
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Hubble was forced, therefore, to use indirect methods to measure the distances.
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A.. Yes, it would, and a waterproofing company using this method usually guarantees its work.
money
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Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost, some of it was used as pure money .
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Gibbs calls it a blatant violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, which forbids using federal money for gentrification.
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You could use the life assurance money to buy the place and stay on.
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To be sure, not all strategists use money flow as a market gauge.
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Moore also used the money to buy a home for his girlfriend and save himself from bankruptcy.
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Why not use some of that money to get started with a low dam-and then switch horses in midstream?
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It is always possible to do that, and to use elsewhere the money saved.
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In practice, both parties use soft money to finance expensive media campaigns that promote their presidential candidates.
name
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But now there's kids who use the name and try to make up their own little Lo Life thing.
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He used her name , though, once.
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Celebration Remembering, and using people's names when talking to them pays dividends in personal relationships.
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Most of them allowed me to use their names .
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He used the name Abdullah Hayira.
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She's also known to have used the names Sarah Collins and Sarah Cohen.
system
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Finally, hair was dried using the System Professional Curl Reactivator to enhance the curl and give extra body.
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Even small firms that bank with small commercial banks can use such systems through established arrangements among the banks.
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The reasons for using expert systems technology in aircraft maintenance are explained.
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Technologysavvy farmers have begun using satellite positioning systems for precision planting and fertilizing.
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The cost of using such established systems is high, typically about £1,500 per hour to hire.
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Fig. 1 shows how an eight bit binary number can be bar coded using this system .
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The existing system for doing so is there to be used , alternative systems are not.
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Chapters 1 and 2 include descriptions of the various chromatographic, electrophoretic and spectroscopic techniques used in such systems .
technique
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And that's 4 weeks cutting, shaping and piecing together in the workshop using techniques , both old fashioned and up to date.
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You learn how to use relaxation techniques to relax your body and lower the pitch of the tone.
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Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique .
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In this chapter, we will examine commonly used techniques for both short-term and long-term financial forecasting and budgeting.
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An alternative is to search using the logarithmic technique .
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The answer is that firms will want to use the most efficient technique because it yields the greatest profit.
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This may be detected either by using pulse timing techniques or by very-long-baseline interferometry.
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Inefficient Communist factories can be made to run at much higher output levels by simply using better management techniques .
term
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Other terms which are useful access points but which will not be used as index terms are listed in light type.
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No one used the term textbook operation.
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I use the term in the medical sense.
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I will use the term stage where it appears in quotes, but beyond this section I will use the term level.
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Exponential smoothing would again normally be used for short term forecasting, for periods up to six months ahead.
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By the time Christopher began using the term , most of the killings had already taken place.
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Information on spatial units, where relevant, are also included and may be used as search terms .
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Walter Adey first used the term synthetic ecology.
word
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One involved using whole word shape to help determine segment positions and to allow for letter shape variations within words.
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Weiser uses the example of words .
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Results can be printed in any form using the word processor.
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I use the word consciously, very much aware that it has been used in the past to demean adult women.
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In brightness masking, a homogeneous bright field is used after the target word .
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Compared to pidgins, a proper language can convey such complicated concepts using relatively few words .
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Syntactic knowledge may be used to identify those word combinations that are grammatically acceptable.
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In conversation we use the word to mean degrade, injure, or destroy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a) fat lot of good/use
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A fat lot of good it did me!
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Frederick Bissett was a member of the Institute of Professional Scientists, and a fat lot of good that did him.
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Getting the pound down was what Labour governments did with metronomic regularity. Fat lot of good it did them.
be/get used to (doing) sth
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Zach's not used to such spicy food.
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Could it be used to predict the mating system of species that had not been studied?
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He walked like an old man trying to get used to new glasses.
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In housing, the market can not be used to move to the market.
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Left: Scenes shot on telephoto appear to have compressed perspectives which can be used to good effect.
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The bulldozer would be used to load them.
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The password which will be used to limit access to the packages created.
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The threat of this ex ante can then be used to ensure adherence to the agreement.
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This money would be used to provide education, job-training assistance, childcare and program administration beginning later this year.
do/use sth in anger
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You'd really need to re-fret this guitar before you used it in anger .
ease of application/use etc
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Choose the push-fit kind for ease of use. 4.
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Layout clear for ease of use.
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New methods must be carefully evaluated according to the criteria of cost and ease of application.
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The old trade-off between ease of use and security must therefore be addressed.
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This was rejected on grounds of ease of use and familiarity with the 100 percent marking scale.
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When selecting any kind of baby product, the essential requirements to consider are comfort, safety and ease of use.
no earthly reason/use etc
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As far as I could tell, there was no earthly reason for Fanshawe to have chosen me for this job.
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It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.
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Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?
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There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be able to move like these young athletes.
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There seemed to be no earthly reason for the Bureau to resist such status-but it did.
use your imagination
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How can you look at a bunch of stars, so far away, and so incomprehensible, without using your imagination ?
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Of course, Vincent explained to Theo, he could avoid the expense of models and use his imagination .
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This means using your imagination and buying some fairly unusual items.
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This would be a well-placed lesson to her in how to use her imagination a bit more.
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We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.
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When the information was slow in coming, the announcers were forced to use their imaginations to fill in the details.
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With Game Boys and other computers you don't need to use your imagination .
use your loaf
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I play by ear I use my loaf I suspect fair play.
use/try every trick in the book
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I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
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Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
use/turn sth to your/good advantage
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First and foremost, Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage .
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Homeloans are one of the cheapest ways of borrowing money - find out how to use them to your advantage .
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If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage , come along.
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Parents may feel suspicious of these, or resentful, and will need help in using them to best advantage .
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Professionals need to be aware of such things and use them to good advantage .
use/wield the big stick
used cars/clothes etc
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Crackdown shows one third of used cars are not safe.
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However, with used cars, who knows?
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Leased a gravel lot for $ 15 a month and sold used cars.
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Now the tax on importing used cars has been slashed.
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The family also sticks to used cars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are we allowed to use a dictionary in the test?
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Can't you see Tad's just using you?
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Can I use your pen?
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Carla often doesn't use good judgment in selecting boyfriends.
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Charles was able to use his family connection for his own personal advancement.
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Do you mind if I use your phone?
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How often do you use the library?
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I can't tell you what to do - you must use your own discretion.
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I try not to use bad language around the kids.
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In his political life, he was not above using his families for his own ends.
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Martens uses her stage name when she travels.
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Morgan stopped using drugs and alcohol six years ago when he entered a long-term treatment program.
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Now that we have a car we very rarely use the buses.
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Planning is essential to make sure that resources are used effectively.
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Researchers often use questionnaires in their work.
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Right-wing activists used people's fears of unemployment as a way of stirring up extremism.
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She first started using drugs when she was thirteen.
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She lets herself be used and then dropped by almost every man she meets.
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The average Westerner uses over 260 lbs of paper every year.
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The drug smugglers used innocent travellers to carry the drugs through customs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A spectrograph uses optical elements called gratings or prisms to separate the light gathered by a telescope into its component colors.
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Every other machine in Harley's range uses its trusted formula of a 45 V-twin in a steel backbone frame.
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First, the wrong caulking had been used.
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Most scholars would agree that Mark came first and the other two used him in writing their accounts.
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Silly me, I have begun to conjure up an image of Newt Gingrich as a man more used than using.
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The experts were asked to use the four-point system commonly used in schools.
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This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.
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We shall use his perceived activities as an excuse for not growing up.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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During these play bouts the kitten's imagination is put to full use .
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He says that they can make full use of the science labs and workshops.
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The vitamin B complex enables the body to make full use of the food consumed.
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This may be because they are not working full-time or are not doing jobs which make full use of their abilities.
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She pulled herself back together again, and hauled herself out of the cubicle to make full use of the facilities.
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Not to make full use of the subject expertise of the university lecturing and research staff for selection is obviously absurd.
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As for capital gains tax, the main waste is due to the failure of married couples to make full use of their allowances.
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Encouraging full use of the potential of the County's rail links with Channel Tunnel rail terminals.
good
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They say that machinery works better when in use .
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Take all the criticism you can get and make the best possible use of it.
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The author of this disk has put the editor to good use designing a challenging collection of maze like levels.
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The drive might be put to better use doing data-only backups or for storing large graphics files.
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And when it comes there is not enough cash to make the best use of it.
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Domestic robots will also make good use of the home network to stay in touch with each other.
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She Dreamed up a new hobby for the Mayor, collecting antique paperweights, and made good use of them.
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To make the best use of space, use sliding doors.
great
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Carter made greater use of it than most but Reagan went even further.
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Many people want jobs that allow them to make greater use of their education and that provide intrinsic work satisfaction.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't make the greatest use of the Windows interface.
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The relative complexity of the Visual Effects required a far greater use of filmed inserts.
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Throw-over bedspreads are another great use for the thicker woven lengths.
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Also, manufacturers have upgraded the specification of diesel cars as well as making greater use of turbo-chargers to improve performance.
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Second, women of all socio-economic groups make greater use of general practitioners than men, again relative to need.
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Surprisingly the greatest use had been among children in reasonably affluent neighbourhoods.
heavy
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Therapeutic input makes heavy use of group work, though individual therapy is also possible.
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In response to heavy recreational use , the Forest Service issued strict new regulations a year ago.
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WordPerfect is a good example of a word-processor that makes heavy use of these key combinations.
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Despite heavy use , it is one of the most fragmented national forests in the country.
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He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity.
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When the guard arrived, they and the police made heavy use of firearms.
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Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use , rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking.
industrial
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Argyll and the Islands Enterprise executives are anxious to purchase the 44-acre site at Sandbank, near Dunoon, for industrial use .
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The industrial use of oil, 3. 4in, constitutes an even more tempting alternative fuels target.
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The village was first mentioned in records of 1707 developing as a result of the increased industrial use of the river.
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The mill is still in industrial use and not open to the public.
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The other 20 percent goes for industrial uses and coins.
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Then Inchbrook was clearly put back to some industrial use as it was damaged by fire in August 1926.
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The first industrial use of power on the Moon will probably be for the manufacture of propellants and life-support materials.
personal
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If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer.
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It also refused to limit the use of county vehicles for personal use in the charter.
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Cattle could be stolen for the personal use of the thieves, often as beef.
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Under the act, teachers can make notes about students for their own personal use .
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Residents pay for their care according to their means and all will have at least a minimum amount of money for personal use .
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You decide which questions you are going to ask and you evaluate them for future personal use .
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There are also handouts, which may be photocopied for personal use .
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Reprinting items retrieved from the archives are for personal use only.
regular
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Tolerance means that with regular use , you need to increase the dose to achieve the same effect.
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Each user will be required to buy an annual pass and pay regular use fees.
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But Smith's name is unfamiliar even to many of the professional mathematicians who make regular use of the ideas he introduced.
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All her bicycle needed was some regular use .
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His Ed Blackwell playing activity was restricted through kidney disease, which required regular use of a dialysis machine far many years.
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She told me that she considered it a better one, but that it was too old to be in regular use .
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Several recent studies have indicated that regular aspirin use may reduce the risk of colon cancer.
suitable
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These search systems must still be suitable for casual use by inept or inexperienced users.
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The former, implemented on dense chips, would have a high radiation immunity and would be suitable for use in space.
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Estate agents' advertisements habitually claim that country houses are suitable for every use from country clubs to prestige headquarters.
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However, it is not suitable for use with many enzyme procedures.
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They are suitable for general use and especially for music recording.
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For these reasons hide glue or Scotch glue is only suitable for use indoors.
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But this does not mean that the carbon-zinc battery would be suitable for use in your detector.
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If the pan is not suitable for use in the oven, transfer the meat to a casserole dish.
widespread
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It is in widespread use , and is supported by other cad systems.
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Kaczynski was disgusted with the widespread drug use and liberal politics at UC-Berkeley, a law enforcement source said.
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But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
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Whether the technology ever will gain widespread use is uncertain.
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A further, recent complexity has been added by the widespread use of video recorders.
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The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use .
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The main obstacle to the widespread use of abatement techniques is the significant and variable national costs which are incurred.
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One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity.
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drug
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There is a growing range of agencies which can provide help and advice on changing their pattern of drug use .
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There is a growing recognition of the debilitating effects of teen drug use , teen pregnancy and violence.
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Stubbornness: Individual willpower, the absolute determination to control drinking or drug use , is exactly what keeps the disease going.
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The results were predictable: Drug use dropped dramatically.
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We also know that socio-economic variables play a potentially vital role in the patterns of drug use .
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Reported drug use of any type among high school seniors jumped 44 percent from 1992 to 1995.
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All of their lives are reduced to their drug use .
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Dole also hammered at the increase in youthful drug use in the last four years.
heroin
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If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.
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Nineteen had used only one drug prior to heroin use, principally cannabis, the rest using a variety of drug combinations.
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Prior to his imprisonment, his burgling and dealing activities financed their heroin use .
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Consequently, it was forecast that the prevalence of heroin use might also begin to fall from 1988-9.
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Evidence of widespread heroin use in the community built up rapidly during 1983-4.
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Will the prevalence of heroin use increase, decline or become stable?
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We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use .
land
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The sale of state firms would be start with the transport, energy, land use and housing sectors, Aznar said.
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Changes in land use and land productivity over the period area analysed.
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It has also resulted in isolated, small areas of land not being fully utilised for agriculture or any other land use .
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However, it has also to be pointed out that many intrusive land uses have occurred in green belts.
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Jacob's strictures served as a reminder that neat and tidy land use arrangements may have been over-emphasized.
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Reform land use planning so that the protection of the natural environment becomes a major feature of the planning system.
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One barrier to the regulation of rural land use change is the absence of planning controls over farming and forestry.
language
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And yet our eventual objective must be to prepare learners to cope with the natural conditions of language use .
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Slang is part of casual, informal styles of language use .
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Nor was I surprised that I often had to show the students how language use might be made meaningful.
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But settling questions of language use is the job of pragmatics-the study of the use of language in context.
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Recent ideas about language use and learning insist on the primacy of communicative activities in the classroom.
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In chapters 6 and 7 I would like to propose a characterization of grammar and language use which shows their interdependence.
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In his work on social class and linguistic styles, Basil Bernstein has identified two different modes of language use .
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They are based on observations of everyday experience and language use .
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increase
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To overcome these difficulties, kings made increasing use of money.
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Soy protein products have increased in use as extenders.
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All is drawn in variously diluted glaze, and there is increasing use of washes of colour.
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Advances in portable computers are an important factor that is likely to lead to increased use of mobile data communication.
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Faced with a loss of power in 1988, party officials made increasing use of what remained for their own personal gain.
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For the hopeful, increased use of leave signals social progress, greater sharing by fathers.
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This is mostly due to an increased use of photographs and larger headlines to accompany text.
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It was at this moment of increasing daily use that the most profound lifestyle changes were perceived by the interviewees.
involve
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It involves the use of an objection as a stimulus to buy.
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Public-Key Cryptography A more powerful form of cryptography involves the use of public keys.
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This involves an intentional use or threat of violence by one person against another.
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Clients still have to pay for their vacations, which usually involve the use of unused timeshare units.
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The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.
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During this period, Guthrie had allegedly been pulling scams involving the use of fake receipts to return stolen property to KMarts.
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Herbalism: a holistic treatment involving the use of herbal remedies specifically chosen and blended for different conditions.
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Many searches involve the use of more than one source, and all searches require that the most appropriate source be chosen.
limit
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Funds obtained by this method are not limited in their use to balance of payments difficulties.
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The doctors in managed-care systems often have financial incentives to limit patients' use of laboratory tests, specialists and other services.
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This, coupled with the fact that the 3M machine offers fewer colours in any case, would limit its use .
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It also refused to limit the use of county vehicles for personal use in the charter.
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A restrictive clause in the title deed limited the land use to mission purposes.
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Such invasive treatment has limited use for these patients, and more confirmation of its efficacy is needed.
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The more open back bends have limited use , but this could be improved.
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But the report was limited to comparing use of six preventive services.
make
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And if you have any special skills or knowledge that can be made use of they would be more than welcome.
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Can it be that they are there for a reason, that the reader makes use of both?
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Another tundra strategy is to make use of the sea.
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Clearly, the government policies required to make the use of education and health services equitable are a daunting package.
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This may be because they are not working full-time or are not doing jobs which make full use of their abilities.
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Each ward should have a planned programme which makes full use of its learning opportunities.
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Shah made use of both pieces of legislation to great effect.
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Similarly, there will be a variant of the 68000 family translator tweaked to make use of the Macintosh file system.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A pastry brush has a variety of uses in the kitchen.
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Herring, 55, is a former drug user who started the foundation in San Jose in 1980.
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It's main use is as a cleaning agent for metals.
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Robots have many different uses in modern industry.
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Technology developed for the space program have civilian uses as well.
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the use of animals in scientific experiments
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The land has been developed for tourism and other recreational uses.
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There has been a decline in the use of the subway system over recent years.
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There have been complaints about the use of excessive force by the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the lowest of low points was the use of five captains in seven Tests in 1988-89.
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He had no expectations or intentions that they would ever become constantly updated guidebooks for the use of millions.
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It appears that chronic caffeine use may cause up-regulation or down-regulation of other neurotransmitter systems as well.
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It leads to a crime: Some one is murdering claimants and putting their insurance money to private use .
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One in 12 people who took part in the survey was without the use of their machine for over a fortnight.
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The ramifications of the wrong use of imagination have to be fully realized before we can hope to control it.