Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [be] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggests that abortion was probably the most prevalent form of contraception for working-class women before 1914–25 She also notes that chemist shops sold quinine , which could be used as a spermicide or as a drug to procure abortion , that a wide variety of drugs were used to achieve abortion , and that advertisers offered many female pills , such as Widow Welch 's Female Pills and Towle 's Pills , which were , in effect , abortifacients . |
| 2 | ICL intends to optimise the server to run corporate relational databases at the high-end of the commercial market , and enable it to link into an organisation 's existing systems , including mainframes , which could be used as clients . |
| 3 | Entry-level Pentium machines , which could be used as servers , are expected to be under $6,000 . |
| 4 | From Okinawa it would be feasible to control all the ports of northern Asia , which could be used as bases for an amphibious expedition . |
| 5 | It is worth checking what is available on video with a view to picking short sequences which could be used as mind stretchers occasionally at the beginning of a training session . |
| 6 | Part of the revision will be the preparation of a microcomputer version which could be used as a reference and teaching resource in colleges , libraries and museums . |
| 7 | There was even a screened-off cubicle which could be used as an interview room . |
| 8 | It was rather clever of Lewis Carroll to think of an animal , flamingo , which could be used as a mallet and also to think of hedgehogs as balls . |
| 9 | Some towns and cities are now devoid of any kind of public freight terminal , or even a suitable siding which could be used for a one-off consignment . |
| 10 | Its purpose was to provide pre-publication information which could be used for book selection and acquisition , and subsequently for catalogue records , prior to the creation of a fuller , more authoritative entry — the CIP revised entry . |
| 11 | The Foreign Secretary now had a smaller official residence in the north-west corner of the block , with reception rooms which could be used for ‘ various practical objects connected with the department ’ . |
| 12 | However , Baillie Cochrane explained that Scott 's first scheme had reception rooms ‘ on a magnificent scale ’ , but on the recommendation of the Select Committee they were omitted and reintroduced at the suggestion of Foreign Office officials as normal rooms which could be used for special occasions . |
| 13 | Following questions in Parliament , the Department of Trade and Industry announced last October that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading UK export controls , and would be restricted . |
| 14 | On 17 October , Mr Sainsbury announced — ‘ in the light of publicity ’ — that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading export control . |
| 15 | The school ‘ plant ’ began to be seen not just as a resource which could be used for adult education or the occasional PTA dance and parents ' meeting . |
| 16 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 17 | The tests were of a type which could be used for diagnostic purposes . |
| 18 | It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services . |
| 19 | The chosen means of achieving this end was to provide local authorities with central government funds which could be used for housing construction and enable the level of rents to be subsidized out of general Exchequer funds — in other words , the framework of the system of public housing finance with which we are familiar today . |
| 20 | Greater interest in , and involvement with , chronology and environmental reconstruction became possible because of the greater pace of development of new techniques to complement established ones which could be used for dating and/or the provision of environmental information . |
| 21 | Of greatest interest , perhaps , are the ‘ tranchet ’ axes ( or ‘ Thames picks ’ ) which could be used for cutting down trees and preparing timber , leading to the possibility of extensive forest clearance even at this early date . |
| 22 | Instead Travelodge offers a standard room which could be used for single , double or family occupancy with guests paying their £31.95 room charge up front . |
| 23 | He is right to say that a significant number of organs , which could be used for transplantation , are not used . |
| 24 | He had at his discretion a sum — a considerable sum , in the view of the Accounts Department — which could be used for the payment of informers . |
| 25 | He designed a small single-seat monoplane which could be used for little but fun flying and possibly racing . |
| 26 | Coun Brady said the council had capital receipts totalling £13m , which could be used for housing purposes but which they could not touch . |
| 27 | Members discussed plans which could be used for families without permanent homes , including the use of housing associations , local authority hostels , use of empty houses awaiting modernisation and private sector leasing . |
| 28 | The size of the increase , amounting to 5.7% or 240 places , seems to have been determined purely on the basis of the amount of spare capacity in the medical schools , which could be used at no capital cost . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend says that cash is available which could be used at least to make some payment to doctors who had their payments limited by the list size criterion . |
| 30 | One thing withe Guild , was some small , very useful peel off stickers which could be used on letters , envelopes or on the work produced . |