Example sentences of "be used [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income from sponsorship should be used to underwrite educational professional activities which benefit the industry generally as well as the Association . |
| 2 | The remainder will be used to install additional scientific machinery in the North Atlantic Fisheries College in Scalloway , where much of the testing has been carried out . |
| 3 | As the spatial file contains all the geometric relationships necessary to specify the body , this can be used to generate any pictorial view . |
| 4 | Now it knew what its transmogrified form could do ; knew instinctively how its own powers of absorption and reconstitution could be used to feed that terrible need . |
| 5 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 6 | While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information . |
| 7 | The remainder was being retained by the Crown and would be used to form seven large , Crown-owned farms . |
| 8 | The term modern algebra can then be used to describe that subsequent algebra , some of it arising from more detailed investigations within the classical theory , in which the symbols manipulated are no longer restricted to representing numerical quantities . |
| 9 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 10 | He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed . |
| 11 | Judicial review can be used to enforce those statutory limits . |
| 12 | Pressed flowers can be used to decorate many other stationery ideas besides the ones shown here . |
| 13 | Consequently , the arguments presented in this section should not be used to dismiss centralized corporate planning . |
| 14 | Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole . |
| 15 | The four MSS bands provide four measures of surface reflectance which can be used to characterize different land-cover classes , as noted in Section 5.3 . |
| 16 | The problem with Hellige 's formulation is that it can be used to explain any particular pattern of results but can not readily predict them since the nature and difficulty of both primary and concurrent tasks needs to be taken into account . |
| 17 | This is because the pen as an input device can be used to facilitate many other sorts of interaction besides the input of freehand text . |
| 18 | The simple consumption function model used above to illustrate the idea of restrictions can also be used to illustrate certain other issues in the econometrics of rational expectations . |
| 19 | If the damaged area is small , wood hardener and repair paste can be used to replace cut-away rotten timber . |
| 20 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 21 | While not offering the flexibility of repayment of an overdraft or Managed Rate Facility , since new bills may be used to replace those maturing , they can provide a continuous source of funds . |
| 22 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 23 | Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to provide a multiprotocol network to will be used to connect European academic , industrial and governmental research institutions . |
| 24 | But the technique could eventually be used to treat many different forms of cancer . |
| 25 | In May 1990 an advisory committee of America 's Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) said omeprazole could be used to treat all duodenal ulcers , not just those which cause severe gut conditions . |
| 26 | Conversely , the same remedy may be used to treat several different clinical conditions if the patients suffering from them respond in a similar way to their illnesses . |
| 27 | From 1957 onwards some buildings began to be used to incarcerate difficult mental patients , or those deemed ‘ untreatable ’ , from other Greek hospitals . |
| 28 | Moreover it can also be used to pinpoint any archaeological finds by giving accurate latitude and longitude positions . |
| 29 | This leads to the relaxation potential model , which can be used to rationalize observed chemical shifts , to predict the chemical shifts of new systems and , it is hoped , to increase our understanding of chemical bonding . |
| 30 | There is a need to distinguish between a child 's mental representation and the different ways that may be used to realize that mental representation pictorially . |