Example sentences of "that [modal v] [be] used by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making explicit this information serves to highlight the semantic relevance of words within the definitions that may be used by the semantic processor to construct semantic relationships between words . |
| 2 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is supplied with some stories on the disk that could be used by age 4 and upwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This can disturb the normal eye movements that would be used by a fluent reader , and visual scanning can be impaired . |
| 10 | In Mr Dobbs 's words , a telecottage is ‘ a room in a village filled with computer communications that can be used by local people to learn and work ’ . |
| 11 | There are many different products available that can be used by the DIY enthusiast to construct the decorative face of a retaining wall . |
| 12 | Is the media merely a tool that can be used by the dominant group in society to bring about whatever change or lack of change they require or does it , by its nature , shape the influence it has on the population ? |
| 13 | This means that the fish have material washed down to them as well as having a greater area of the varzeas ( Amazonian flood plains ) in which to forage , introducing both food and herbs not otherwise available to aquatic life , in a form that can be used by them . |
| 14 | The two also hope to accelerate standards by contributing to the definition of an open architecture that can be used by others in the industry to develop software applications , hardware technologies and other products and components for Fibre Channel Standard-based networks . |
| 15 | What many dealers would appreciate is software that can be used by virtually anyone yet produce the same basic results as a complicated program such as PageMaker . |
| 16 | As with the previous study it is anticipated that the project will generate findings that can be used by various government departments and other public bodies to address issues of policy . |
| 17 | Specialized applications packages that can be used by the relatively unskilled , e.g. SPSS ( the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences ) . |