Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] be used [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your card can not be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from Cashline machines . |
| 2 | But that law ca n't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales . |
| 3 | If a company 's ACT can not be used to reduce its current year tax liability , it will become surplus . |
| 4 | The decision marks a significant development because it shows that national copyright law can not be used to justify conduct which is incompatible with the objectives of Article 86 . |
| 5 | Deportation can not be used to achieve extradition , and the Home Secretary could not use his powers to revoke television licences where people had bought a new licence early in order to avoid a price increase . |
| 6 | Section 32 enables the Inland Revenue to adjust the value at which Target 's shares are disposed of to counteract the depressant effect of this sort of arrangement , while s176 ensures that a hive-up can not be used to realise an artificial loss on the disposal of Target 's shares ( eg , when it is liquidated ) . |
| 7 | Measurements at a single site can not be used to calculate global changes . |
| 8 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 9 | Porcelain can also be TL tested , but it is such a hard ceramic that a drill can not be used to take the sample because of the heat generated and the spurious luminescence signals produced . |
| 10 | The purpose of this is to reduce the parent company 's chargeable gain , though this mechanism can not be used to create an allowable loss for the parent company ( see s176 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 11 | However , this analysis is important in showing that it is not rational expectations itself which produces the result that monetary policy can not be used to stabilize real variables in the economy ; rather , it is the combination of rational expectations and a particular class of model . |
| 12 | Resources used to produce goods and services for the government can not be used to make goods in the private sector . |
| 13 | Furthermore the lack of any rigid demarcation between the ( unchanging ) program and the ( changing ) data means that the computer hardware can not be used to protect the program from corrupting itself , nor can a single copy of a program be shared simultaneously by several users . |
| 14 | A supplementary statement can not be used to amend the evidence recorded in an earlier statement . |
| 15 | Inflexible or rough-edged blemishes caused by chicken pox or acne and superficial wrinkles around the eyes are not helped by collagen implants and the technique can not be used to enlarge breasts . |
| 16 | A moment 's thought will convince the reader that the crossed reading is prohibited here : this sentence can not be used to describe a situation where Arthur knows that the animal in question is an alsatian , but is unsure of its sex , while Mike knows that it is female , but thinks it might be a wolf . |
| 17 | For company law purposes , only realised profits can ( in the absence of a capital reduction ) be used to make distributions , so upward valuations of assets to create a revaluation reserve can not be used to create a dividend-stripping opportunity . |
| 18 | The other part can not be used to do work . |
| 19 | Because the issue is not one of consent with under-age sex , evidence of their sexual precociousness and previous sexual experience can not be used to imply consent as happens with adult females . |