Example sentences of "they [modal v] be use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 2 | During this time , churches were frequently the private property of a local lord , they were part of the resources of an estate , and any revenue from them could be used by the owner . |
| 3 | The use of readmission rates as an indicator of outcome rests upon the assumption that they may be used as a proxy for morbidity resultant from poor clinical care . |
| 4 | These sets of buyers should possess distinguishing characteristics , so that : * they may be used as marketing targets against which products are positioned to meet segment customer need ; * a marketing mix appropriate to a particular segment may be selected . |
| 5 | These sets of buyers should possess distinguishing characteristics so that ( i ) they may be used as marketing targets against which products are positioned to meet segment customer need ; ( ii ) a marketing mix appropriate to a particular segment may be selected . |
| 6 | It is vital that our site work and written reports are of the highest standards because if there were a transgression they may be used as legal evidence . ’ |
| 7 | The JC pronouns mi and dem are derived historically from the English object pronouns me and them although in JC they may be used as subjects . |
| 8 | Those programs that filter or rearrange the data write output files in the same format as the inputs , so that they may be used as inputs to the other applications . |
| 9 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 10 | They may also be used in pressurized rural areas as a strategy for concentrating growth in order to relieve congestion in other villages , while in more remote regions they may be used to ‘ intercept ’ or reduce out-migration . |
| 11 | The skins are sold to the rug trade and in future they may be used for making garments . |
| 12 | They may be used for simple emphasis , as in ( 5 ) ( c ) , or to highlight some property , implied by the noun but still in some way surprising as in ( 5 ) ( a ) , or for the sake of a contrast , as in ( 5 ) ( b ) . |
| 13 | But they may be used in reconstructing the former profile of the river and therefore in deriving the sea level to which the river was graded . |
| 14 | They may be used in both hands simultaneously , and chords of two or three notes can be played by the left hand in harmonics if the notes lie close together . |
| 15 | However , they must be used with care and should not be slavishly copied . |
| 16 | They must be used to that , or got out of practice . |
| 17 | They should be used with care to avoid over-consolidation and destruction of soil structure , and never used in wet conditions . |
| 18 | Therefore , while there are many advantages in standard letters , they should be used with caution . |
| 19 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 20 | The strong flavours of culinary herbs ensure that they should be used in small quantities , but there is no need to go to the other extreme and be timid with them . |
| 21 | The proliferation of all these tests for bacteria raises a practical problem if they should be used in the investigation of diarrhoea . |
| 22 | Wherever possible , they should be used in conjunction with parish registers and other sources . |
| 23 | Edward II had tried to suppress tournaments , because he feared that they might be used as occasions to form political conspiracies against the court , but his son now encouraged them as occasions when king and nobles could together demonstrate their knightly prowess . |
| 24 | The complexity of these relations , and the manner in which they might be used as a model of dynamic mechanisms to extend the concept of objectification from a simple dialectical cycle , is evident in Klein 's discussion of infantile hallucinatory gratification . |
| 25 | They might be used to big crowds in the Lenin Stadium , but it 'll nothing like they 'll get at Anfield . ’ |
| 26 | The application was defended on the basis that discovery would be contrary to public interest as the reports were highly confidential and the fact that they might be used in litigation would inhibit the doctors preparing such reports in the future . |
| 27 | He had clearly been afraid they might be used against him after Samantha 's release . |
| 28 | In April and June 1927 , Nos. 36 and 38 were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes acting on the wheels and on the track so that they could be used on the Thornton Heath route and run in conjunction with the bogie cars that were being similarly equipped . |
| 29 | Speadsheets have not so far figured largely as a resource for history , but they could be used with certain types of documentary sources . |
| 30 | Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing . |