Example sentences of "[noun sg] that can be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measuring changes in urine acid output at breakfast time provides a reliable indirect measure of gastric acid secretion that can be used in field conditions , enabling the relation between gastric acid output and the development of diarrhoeal diseases to be investigated . |
| 2 | These latter are the agglomerated , and subsequently dried , cells of single-celled microorganisms like algae , yeasts , fungi and certain bacteria which can be cultivated on a large industrial-scale basis for the production of protein that can be used for either human or animal consumption . |
| 3 | The headteacher 's concern may well be focussed on percentage turn out , a figure that can be used in the report to governors to indicate the strength of parental interest and support . |
| 4 | The two also hope to accelerate standards by contributing to the definition of an open architecture that can be used by others in the industry to develop software applications , hardware technologies and other products and components for Fibre Channel Standard-based networks . |
| 5 | Thank you , it 's a verb , right , to do something , so it 's the same spelling that can be used in different ways . |
| 6 | Sprung bases are the most comfortable and are the only type that can be used with a pocket-sprung mattress . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose it must also have a public telephone that can be used in private and a post office that will send out mail ? |
| 8 | It will not escape notice that , first , this question enquires about the verb and the adjective together , not the adjective alone ; and , second , this is precisely the form of question that can be used for a single , unmodified transitive verb : ( 9 ) Lionel shredded the memoranda what did Lionel do to the memoranda ? 5.2 For reasons which will become apparent , we shall call the adjectives in this structure adverbal adjectives . |
| 9 | In order to provide the designer with such a tool that can be used during the early conceptual stage , effort has been concentrated on attempting to use an existing CAD system to synthesize the motion of mechanism trains . |
| 10 | Is the media merely a tool that can be used by the dominant group in society to bring about whatever change or lack of change they require or does it , by its nature , shape the influence it has on the population ? |
| 11 | A NEW antifouling that can be used on underwater metal has produced sales of more than $1.3 million in the United States during the launch period . |
| 12 | I always start new ribber knitters off with a very simple band that can be used as a neckband for round or V-necks , or even as a welt , where the welt is knitted separately to the garment . |
| 13 | being able to get into a room that can be used as a bedroom , either upstairs or downstairs , |
| 14 | The counsellors may provide displaced executives with ‘ mini-offices ’ — their own office space and secretarial back-up that can be used on a daily basis . |
| 15 | And another advantage of these mechanisms of defence is they apply to other inputs to the ego , not just those from the er from the unconscious or from the organism itself but from the outside , for example the denial is a defence mechanism that can be used against reality and is used by psychotics to great and often disastrous effect . |
| 16 | It is a method of behaviour control that can be used for most forms of behaviour management except where the children are being destructive or likely to hurt someone else or themselves . |
| 17 | In this chapter a therapeutic approach that can be used with a large proportion of patients who take overdoses has been described . |
| 18 | I think that the riders for health project has given us ah a model that can be used in a great many other situations and we 've found here in Lesotho that many other ministries and government departments are interested in what we 're doing because the motorcycles , if used properly , can provide a very cost effective form of transport . |
| 19 | The purpose of evaluation is to collect and analyse information that can be used for rational decision making . |
| 20 | On the back of information collected for patient care will come aggregated information that can be used for resource management , budgeting , audit , and research on outcomes . |
| 21 | Additional information that can be used to narrow down the range of possible solutions in a normal co-ordinate analysis can be obtained using isotopically substituted samples . |
| 22 | The purpose of evaluation has been described by Astin and Panos as follows : ‘ the fundamental purpose of evaluation is to produce information that can be used in educational decision making ’ . |
| 23 | The chemical information is distributed in the form if direct output from the program , avoiding transcription errors , and is in a form that can be used as a direct input into another computer for additional processing . |
| 24 | This means that the fish have material washed down to them as well as having a greater area of the varzeas ( Amazonian flood plains ) in which to forage , introducing both food and herbs not otherwise available to aquatic life , in a form that can be used by them . |
| 25 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 26 | Well , if we 're going to move forward to that sort of union , there are really only three unions in this country that can be used as the base for that new structure , that new organization . |
| 27 | What many dealers would appreciate is software that can be used by virtually anyone yet produce the same basic results as a complicated program such as PageMaker . |
| 28 | ‘ Video is possibly the most versatile and cost-effective medium that can be used for development communication , extension and training , ’ says Matthijs de Vreede in his book Video for Development . |
| 29 | Raised beds are another attractive feature that can be used in patio or terrace gardens . |
| 30 | The stock market also provides a price guide to the value of a company that can be used for transferral of ownership in the form of a takeover . |