Example sentences of "be used by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in Thai the morpheme khrab is a polite particle that can only be used by male speakers , the corresponding form reserved for female speakers being kha ( Haas , 1964 ) . |
| 2 | Hedging instruments such as swaps , options and financial futures can of course be used by financial institutions to limit risk , but these also contain ( often unknown and unlimited ) risks of their own — witness the losses of Midland Bank in its interest rate risk hedging in 1990 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 6 | Paintbrush/Frieze PCX format : Paintbrush is a screen drawing programme from Zsoft , and Frieze is a terminate-stay-resident utility which can be used by other applications to capture a screen to a . |
| 7 | This could easily be used by other members of a herd as a way of naming an individual zebra . |
| 8 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 9 | However , it is part of the nature of timeshare that units will be used by other people , so I do n't think this is very significant . |
| 10 | a simple embedded mark-up that can easily be used by other tools . |
| 11 | These extra cards can only be used by that shaman — they can not be used by other shamans . |
| 12 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
| 13 | The concept they are promoting is that of ‘ electronic ink ’ — a magic ingredient that will enable scribbles written on one pen computer to be used by other systems , even those without pen-aware technology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some firms sell data , such as the names and addresses of their customers , which can be used by other companies for mailing lists . |
| 16 | As with pupil-created databases , word processing allows pupils to produce work which is professional in layout and which can be used by other pupils . |
| 17 | A strong motivational aspect , highlighted by many school librarians and teachers , was the fact that students were creating an original database which would be used by other students . |
| 18 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 19 | The pilot scheme can only be used by consenting parties which consent can not be withdrawn without leave of the court . |
| 20 | Since the publication of Cmnd. 7131 the discount rates to be used by nationalized industries have not been specified centrally . |
| 21 | Which language should be used by postclassical criminology ? |
| 22 | Most of them are school-based and can be used by small groups of teachers working under the supervision of a trained tutor . |
| 23 | Section 0610 should also be used by MAS to review heads of agreement received by the vendors . |
| 24 | It was , Joyce explained , ‘ a song generally used by anti-Fascists of Communist persuasion , and one which would not be used by nice Worthing people . ’ |
| 25 | There are growing fears that the cash-starved klondykers , no longer policed by political commissars from their own nations , could be used by international drug dealers to smuggle large consignments of illegal substances into the UK . |
| 26 | This combination of partial indicators clearly identifies those universities which produce most unproductive theses , and could be used by funding bodies in establishing objective criteria for departmental evaluation . |
| 27 | The major objective is , therefore , to formulate a model which can be used by central government and local housing authorities in the housing planning process . |
| 28 | The UAHS is trying to identify buildings which could be used by private businesses . |
| 29 | The unit can receive calls , transmit faxes or be used by personal computers to tap into remote data banks — all for $5.50 a minute . |
| 30 | The Salsabil company was also said to have supplied false statistics to be used by Egyptian opposition groups . |