Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It is absolutely staggering that while the Ministry of Defence was deploying soldiers in the Gulf , the Department of Trade and Industry was allowing British companies to supply equipment that could be used for munitions to the enemy , ’ he said . |
| 32 | The two are aiming to develop three demonstrators for advanced pattern recognition systems that could be used for data analysis . |
| 33 | The only thing I like about him is the feeling that there is something there that could be used for good if it could be got at . |
| 34 | Basically erm I agree with what you say but that the County Council itself of course is a landowner of erm some quite attractive erm areas of land that could be used for below cost housing , but the problem in the past has been that they always had to sell erm at the market price . |
| 35 | One surprise measure in the Budget was the freeze on the ‘ earnings cap ’ which was introduced in the 1989 Budget to restrict the amount of salary that could be used for pension contributions for high earners . |
| 36 | Later , under Jakobson , the idea emerged of a set of features that could be used for every language , and a set of about twelve such features was proposed in Jakobson et al. |
| 37 | He ( Anderson ) played on a sexual stereotype , saying she was young , black , ‘ the best sex he had ever had ’ — anything that could be used as an excuse . ’ |
| 38 | In any case , the British hoped for an American-British-Dominions agreement that could be used as a basis on which to invite other countries to a conference . |
| 39 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 40 | Here are a few ideas : pick up anything that could be used as a baton , not too short and not too long — a piece of wood , a length of metal , a strong branch , a short piece of scaffolding or part of a wooden fence would do . |
| 41 | The discussion concentrated upon the imperatives of effective political communication : the need to prepare a ‘ distillation ’ of policy in a form that could be used as background for press conferences , speeches and broadcasts , and the language and basic terms that should be employed . |
| 42 | He declared that his new government would not " create another condition that could be used as a pretext to overthrow it " . |
| 43 | The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli . |
| 44 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 45 | As commander-in-chief — he would not co-operate with Spanish generals on any other terms — Wellington was loth to regard native troops as an instrument that could be used with safety in battle . |
| 46 | She wanted to put no weapon into her mother-in-law 's hands that could be used against her . |
| 47 | At the moment , we have no way of knowing and , although the report is now public property , its contents during preparation and its final contents are determined entirely by those paying the bill — and they are the promoters who have every interest in avoiding drawing attention to anything that could be used against them when the Bill is debated publicly or scrutinised in the House on Second Reading , Report or in the Special Select Committee or the Standing Committee . |
| 48 | Scientists now believe life is based on an infinite variety of polypeptides , with a great potential for unrealized polypeptides that could be used in living systems . |
| 49 | The following sections contain examples of criteria of the kind that could be used in a criterion-referenced assessment scheme . |
| 50 | Video material that could be used in teacher training can be grouped in a similar way to material for teaching : |
| 51 | I would therefore appreciate any information that could be used in preparing our evidence . |
| 52 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 53 | That led the Government to conclude that environmental concerns were bound to constrain the amount of coal that could be used in the UK in the longer term . |
| 54 | MANILA ( Reuter ) — President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines said yesterday that the body of Ferdinand Marcos still had a ‘ malignant power ’ that could be used by her opponents to seize power . |
| 55 | Jacquie , who can be contacted on 0483 301831 for information — or for a fundraising pack that could be used by clubs , pubs and organisations — told the Herald : ‘ Politics and now the general election have tended to dominate newspapers for a long time , squeezing out reports on stories about Africa — good as well as bad . |
| 56 | The use of Net Theory , often called ‘ Petri nets ’ after its initiator C A Petri ( Introduction to Net Theory — Brauer 1980 ) was considered , but discarded as being too specialised to meet one of the research project aims , ie to produce an enquiry method that could be used by practitioners with the minimum of training . |
| 57 | The GMC may have its hands tied in terms of the disciplinary action that it can take itself , but it is in a position to collect information that could be used by other interested bodies . |
| 58 | It is supplied with some stories on the disk that could be used by age 4 and upwards . |
| 59 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |
| 60 | Jacques Devraux and his son were waiting beside a baggage truck that was already loaded with the rest of their hunting equipment , and leaving their sons to stand watch , the two men disappeared into the shadowy interior of the market to haggle over a purchase of several hundred pounds of salt and arsenical soap that would be used for drying and preserving the hides of animals they hoped to shoot . |