Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb mod] [be] use [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tiffin tins are ideal for fruit cakes and can be used as a base for people/animal shapes or bells .
2 Floodlights are available either as wide-beam units for general lighting , or in the form of spot-lamps the light from which is focused into a concentrated beam ; some have variable-focus lamps and can be used for either duty .
3 Using log diaries to record experience before taking membership or fellowship examinations is well established in some disciplines and could be used by senior house officers .
4 Moreover , the crude preparation obtained was devoid of exonuclease activities and could be used to accurately define the nature of the cleavage products .
5 It has been designed to work with inert gases and may be used in systems with pressure ranges from 20 to 150 psig .
6 The switch has been designed to support increasing numbers of nodes and will be used in future IBM supercomputers , the company says .
7 Otherwise , it had no connection with hops and might be used for cidermaking , housing livestock , or as a cartshed .
8 The witness said that these types of items had been encountered previously in improvised explosive devices and could be used in letter or parcel bombs .
9 They can be used with a problem-solving element to develop a knowledge of semantic meaning as signalled by lexis and syntax within sentences and can be used in support of tasks which focus on pragmatic meaning by providing a consciousness-raising extension to communication-oriented activities .
10 This liquid cleans , conditions and waterproofs all kinds of leather articles from shoes to jackets and can be used on lightweight and pale coloured leather .
11 These are supplementary aids to the legs and hands and can be used for correction and help to teach the horse to answer the aids more readily .
12 But it is not by any means just for children and can be used as a solo instrument or in bands .
13 Some of the facilities available to national newspapers are now available on programs for microcomputers and can be used by school librarians and teachers in schools .
14 If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon .
15 This facility is available on some modern pipe organs and can be used as a tool for students , and for the recording of pieces or hymn accompaniments by a competent organist , to be reproduced later when the player can not be present .
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