Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [be] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have no right , that is , that the collective power of the state be used for them or not be used against them just in virtue of what a legislature or another court has decided in the past . |
| 2 | When weaker labelling made grain counts necessary , a cut off of 6 grains or more was used to define labelling . |
| 3 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 4 | That line of analysis tends to indicate that when one is interpreting s740(3) and the meaning of the expression " relevant income " ( meaning " income which can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for an individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him " ) the taxpayer may be having the benefit of a slightly generous interpretation if the Revenue permit , in any year in which income arises , the amount of the relevant income in that year to be reduced by the amount of expenditure incurred in that year . |
| 5 | Relevant income for any year of assessment , in relation to an individual is any income which arises in that year to a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom and which by virtue or in consequence of the transfer or associated operations referred to in the main charging provision — s740 — can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for the individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him . |
| 6 | Under the " continuing review " test , what matters is whether the income can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for the individual at the time the benefit in question is in fact conferred on him . |
| 7 | A farmer friend — I do have some — said to me , ’ You realise that as soon as the quota was introduced dairy farmers put more sheep on land that previously was used for cows . ’ |
| 8 | Apart from the obvious fact that certain kinds of learning may be most appropriately learnt directly from a teacher , there are many contents in Africa where ‘ formal ’ and ‘ teacher-centred ’ approaches are the only ones which can rationally and effectively be used . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's ideal as a soil conditioner and for tree planting , and besides being used here it is being used in planting Cleveland 's new Community Forest . ’ |
| 10 | These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement . |
| 11 | On the computers very sure , this is already in the system this , and already being used , we are just , it wo n't be of any benefit unti , until you actually start working on true data . |
| 12 | However , at the other end of the scale these relations may complement each other , and thus be used to explain the stability of a particular form of social organisation . |
| 13 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 14 | Ro rose petals erm , were eaten , in fact , there was a thriving erm , industry near Paris for drying rose petals which were used in medicine , and also were used erm , to crystallise and to they were put in cakes and things like that . |
| 15 | For people and pronouns in English the masculine is unmarked and hence is used as a neutral or unspecified term … . |
| 16 | This information , given suitable formatting , can form the basis of a collocation dictionary and hence be used by the semantic analyser . |
| 17 | The terms near and far are used to emphasize the direction-independent nature of the Rule . |
| 18 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 19 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 20 | The second part of this series investigates the new reproductive and genetic technologies , that is , developments in the sphere of human reproduction , and will look at how pro-fertility and anti-fertility technologies ( such as hormonal contraceptives ) are two sides of population control , and , how the use of science , scientific principles and technology are directly and indirectly being used to serve the aims of a whole host of interests at the expense of women . |
| 21 | On completion the project would go on display at Burns garage for a while and then be used to try and generate more interest in aviation in the area . |
| 22 | The saxophones are rarely employed as a group in the orchestra , but the E flat alto has now and again been used for solos , e.g. in Ravel 's orchestration of Mussorgsky 's Pictures from an Exhibition , Vaughan Williams 's Job and Britten 's Sinfonia da Requiem . |
| 23 | For example , a superior variant of a module may exist but not be used in a package and consequently may not require to be transferred as part of the package . |
| 24 | The First Amendment of the Constitution about freedom of speech and the press not only symbolises this commitment , but also is used to defend this position in the courts , though even here there are some limits . |
| 25 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 26 | It is a slim wooden rod which slips into the first ring of each curtain on the leading edge and , when not being used , hangs out of sight . |