Example sentences of "[modal v] have be used [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 2 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 3 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid . |
| 4 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 5 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 6 | The budget could have been used to get this region and the country generally out of recession . |
| 7 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 8 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 9 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |