Example sentences of "[pron] can be used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selectors now have a choice of bibliographical databases which can be used for selection . |
| 2 | We 're doing the oval shaped box , as well as little round ones which can be used for flower decorations , and boxes with handles . |
| 3 | The Atari XE is an £80 games console which comes with dedicated cassette recorder and an add-on keyboard which can be used for word processing or , say , adventure games . |
| 4 | There are various methods which can be used for computer files ( see box ‘ Getting quarts into pint pots ’ ) . |
| 5 | Special air-drying techniques using extended room temperature hypotonic treatments , or shorter hypotonic treatments at higher temperatures , have been devised for the production of extended pachytene chromosomes which can be used for mapping of individual bivalents ( 10–13 ) . |
| 6 | Many schools have furniture which can be used for play outside and children will often supplement this with improvised ‘ furniture ’ from cardboard boxes , for instance . |
| 7 | Above your head is probably a vast amount of space , which can be used for storage and a whole range of activities — the loft . |
| 8 | It also puts out runners which can be used for propagation . |
| 9 | School librarians can also use programs such as Dbase 2 which is a flexible database management package which can be used for acquisitions and other purposes . |
| 10 | Southdata also has a very fast text database package COLOSSUS which can be used for retrieval . |
| 11 | Rather than try to combine all individual reports of unmet need into a county-wide planning process , the council has split its records into two types : the individual care assessment , where care managers decide for themselves how to record needs , and a more formal , anonymous sample of 10 per cent of service users , which can be used for planning . |
| 12 | Almost any material which can be used for patios and gardens can be used to build garden steps . |
| 13 | These include real time data analysis which can be used for speech , vibration and signal analysis ; pattern recognition for finger print , face and signature recognition ; and intelligent data management for control systems , for instance multiple sensor analysis , fault and trend detection , management statistics and transaction processing . |
| 14 | Data General Corp and Digital Analysis Corp have developed an integrated network , system and application package which can be used with TCP/IP and OSI protocols : OS/EYE*NODE uses SNMP and CMIP/CMIS for control , monitoring and analysis and can run on Sun 's NetManager and Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView without further coding operating over Ethernet , token ring , X.25 or FDDI networks — no prices given . |
| 15 | Currently , there are six formats which can be used with camcorders . |
| 16 | This limits the length of run which can be used between booster stages which receive light , reconstitute and amplify the electrical signals , and re-inject light into the next stage of fibre . |
| 17 | When presenting a classical and a modern piece women may use a practice skirt for one selection which can be used over jeans , or another skirt . |
| 18 | It gives additional information which can be used as experience grows and by those who already possess some knowledge of Homoeopathy . |
| 19 | Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute . |
| 20 | Thus , when buying or selling barley , they take account of the supplies of such things as sugar , which can be used as substitutes for it in brewing , and again of all the various feeding stuffs , a scarcity of which might raise the value of barley for consumption on the farm . |
| 21 | Calculators which can be used as data banks may not be used . |
| 22 | Initially applied in the context of lakes and their drainage basins which can be used as units of sediment-based ecological study ( Oldfield , 1977 ) , the techniques have now been shown to have widespread application to sediment correlation in lake sediments , to differentiation of weathering and pedogenesis , to the identification of sediment sources , and there may subsequently be application of mineral magnetic measurements to long sediment sequences from major lake basins in non-glaciated regions , to near-shore marine sediments in morphogenetically dynamic areas , and also to cave sediments , alluvial fills , river terrace sequences and to loess successions . |
| 23 | Other procedural clauses may restrict the evidence which can be used in support of a claim : for instance , a contract may provide that a certificate of quality by an inspector or surveyor shall be conclusive evidence that goods conform to the contract ; or that " failure to notify the sellers of any defects or shortages within three days shall be conclusive evidence that the goods were in conformity with the contract in all respects " ; or even that " acceptance of the goods shall be conclusive evidence of their conformity with the contract " . |
| 24 | There is also other equipment which can be used in distance learning situations . |
| 25 | Macro-economic research in economic history depends to a large extent on the availability of annual series which can be used in models which test the growth path of the economy . |
| 26 | Other forms of gentle therapy such as yoga and medical herbalism have been suggested where appropriate , any of which can be used in conjunction with aromatherapy . |
| 27 | The mouse is a hand-held device connected to a computer which can be used in conjunction with a keyboard . |
| 28 | The Mini Vac is an attachment which can be used in conjunction with your household vacuum cleaner . |
| 29 | Paris-based Axial Consulting Group SA 's PS'Soft division has added three new modules to its Qualiparc Multi Platforms system management software , which can be used in conjunction with a variety of Unix and non-Unix databases , running under Motif , Windows or Presentation Manager . |
| 30 | Canadian firm Elegant Communications Inc 's software for monitoring reliability and security of networked Unix machines , XRSA , which can be used in conjunction with network managers such as IBM 's AIX NetView or Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView , is now available in the UK from Winchester , Hampshire-based Avington Systems Ltd. +44 962 779 894 . |