Example sentences of "could [adv] be use [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 2 | Although the development officers ’ budget was almost entirely used for the payment of support workers it could also be used for the purchase of goods ( for example a single bed for a client coming out of hospital ) but not for the purchase of other services . |
| 3 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 4 | This scheduled time could also be used by the manager to listen to the team 's feedback . |
| 5 | Family connections — always important in finding the first job for a girl or boy leaving school — could now be used in the printing trade , whatever the union said . |
| 6 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 7 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 8 | This platform could therefore be used as the basis for a core curriculum from which various material is developed and structures created . |