Example sentences of "could be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If it was an ‘ either or ’ situation , I would go for a winch as it could be used for other jobs such as moving fallen trees or recovering other vehicles etc . |
| 32 | Once trained , they could be used for other things too . |
| 33 | The buildings could be used for other purposes and we 'd welcome that . |
| 34 | The lecture periods could be used for outside visitors , or for specific and relevant accounts by teachers who did not normally participate in the work ; examples were the playing of records of part of Haydn 's Creation with explanation and commentary , by a teacher made specially available , and a talk on Red Indian tribes by a visitor from a local museum , together with overhead transparencies , slides and objects from the museum collection . |
| 35 | A senior Garda source in north Donegal said : ‘ These traffic lights could be used for subversive or sinister purposes and we are anxious to trace their whereabouts as soon as possible . ’ |
| 36 | Alert 's flying tour of Britain brought home to us that the new GRP planing hulls could be used for long range patrols when required and that they were not just " hot rods " for use in sheltered waters . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The resulting room could be used for private parties and conference meals . |
| 39 | In this sense , it was interested both in the narrowing of the range of views presented in newspapers and the likelihood that newspapers could be used for political ends . |
| 40 | Wang , the chief engineer at China 's space science and technology centre in Peking , said the delay is because the US believes the hardware could be used for military purposes . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | In principle such particles could be used for targeted delivery of a genetic marker to cells ( see below ) . |
| 43 | The tests were of a type which could be used for diagnostic purposes . |
| 44 | In other areas , however , land could be used for arable , arable and pasture , pasture , or wood , and how it was used depended to a large extent on the proximity of settlements and in what sort of economy the local farmers were engaged . |
| 45 | We can thus see that the whole of the rest of the parish could be used for arable . |
| 46 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 47 | As the brushes are relatively inexpensive , separate ones could be used for different glazes . |
| 48 | If they are to remain empty at any particular time short-held leases could be used so that the barracks could be used for local housing rather than stay vacant . |
| 49 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He designed a small single-seat monoplane which could be used for little but fun flying and possibly racing . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |