Example sentences of "could [adv] be used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for N. lapillus , which does not grow as an adult ( p. 307 ) , this could only be used for immatures . |
| 2 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 3 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 4 | On Oct. 24 , 1989 , details were released of a Supreme Court ruling which qualified an earlier ruling on Oct. 3 that the government 's emergency policy of extradition by decree ( introduced in August — see p. 36844 ) was constitutional , stating that administrative measures could only be used in cases where countries requesting extradition had no extradition agreement with Colombia . |
| 5 | Despite the obstructions it was clear that aircraft did use the runway , for it was marked by the black rubber streaks of fresh tyre marks , but the two trucks , together with the yellow cross , were evidence that the runway could only be used by invitation . |
| 6 | But a mask is what it was , and he had hated the mask ; and unlike Falkenna , Sinisalo , Hollower , it could not be used at whim . |
| 7 | It involves injecting the substance into the mice 's lungs , a treatment which could not be used on humans . |
| 8 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 9 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 10 | A fingerprint was found — but she was told it could not be used as evidence and other officers were not questioned about it , she told an industrial tribunal . |
| 11 | Gibraltar 's Court of Appeal rejected his claim that an alleged tape-recorded confession to the murders could not be used as evidence against him . |
| 12 | Certainly the Americans continued to look for alternative strategies , both to raise the nuclear threshold and ( because they felt the Europeans left them too few military options ) to ensure that small nuclear weapons could still be used for war-fighting . |
| 13 | Since the DVLC at Swansea became responsible for driving licences the use of the negative averment for driving licences has ended but could still be used for certificates of insurance and test certificates etc . |
| 14 | Iraqi chemical-weapons factories had suffered ‘ considerable damage ’ , but much of Mr Hussein 's existing chemical stockpile was dispersed and could still be used in bombs , short-range rockets and artillery shells . |
| 15 | Such devices could also be used for coal mining so that the skill of the coal miner could be retained ; for fire-fighting in which the skill of the fire-fighter would be retained ; and there could be a wide range of medical applications including microsurgery . |
| 16 | And if current tests prove successful they could also be used with liquids . |
| 17 | Offcuts from the wood industry could also be used as fuel . |
| 18 | He said the kit could also be used by pilots , public transport drivers and people operating dangerous machinery . |
| 19 | Reliance is currently placed on a network of monitoring stations , often sparsely located and frequently outside fog-prone areas ; GIS could implement a predictive model based on digitized map features and indeed the model could also be used in site allocation studies for airports and the like . |
| 20 | Barbara Stocking , author of the King 's Fund report The Future Shape of Acute Services , points out that pumps which deliver measured doses of cancer therapy , antibiotics , drugs for pain relief and clotting factors for haemophilia could now be used at home . |
| 21 | The Associated Board examinations , then , suitably extended , could well be used by universities and music colleges as the sole criterion by which students might be accepted to read music . |
| 22 | Some run efficient remedial courses , which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course . |
| 23 | Taken at face value , they 'd result in a college place and authentic P-Cas documents which could then be used for fraud . |
| 24 | The rationale behind island-driving was the expectation that some words in the utterance would be pronounced sufficiently clearly to be recognised out of context , and could therefore be used as islands of comparative certainty from which to build an interpretation of the rest of the utterance . |