Example sentences of "be used [prep] good " in BNC.

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1 Polycrystalline samples can be used with good results in elemental analysis but these samples give less detailed information in structural analysis .
2 It certainly appears to be used with good effect by the courts .
3 ‘ But as you so clearly realize , scientists have many times created tools that can be used for good , but which have then been perverted to evil use .
4 I suspect what the conclusion wants to imply is that there is something in the philosophy of science which says that science should be used for good things and that war is not one of these .
5 Unlike Vietnam and El Salvador , this is a situation where America 's military might can be used for good , rather than for their own political ends .
6 The only thing I like about him is the feeling that there is something there that could be used for good if it could be got at .
7 Do you think that your discovery is enhanced , if the new knowledge can be used for good of mankind , or do you think that acquiring new knowledge is just enough on it 's own .
8 This takes us out of the realm of male-female sexual relationships into another sphere , where such bonds can be used for better communication between individuals , and to foster the link between teacher and pupil .
9 The virtual pay freeze for five million public employees will free £1.5 billion — to be used for better services for the public , he said .
10 Can the table and standard lamps be used to better advantage by moving them to different positions ?
11 Just as it is necessary to ensure full involvement of members , so the time available has to be used to best advantage .
12 By and large , the occasions when the nobility might exploit a situation as cavalry and those when artillery could be used to best effect were not the same .
13 Well Gain Multimedia will enable you to turn on the workstation and it will talk to you , it will show you videos , it will show you animation as to how that workstation should be used to best advantage .
14 Debates about what a modern health care system can be expected to provide , how limited resources can be used to best effect and what needs to be done in a broader sense to improve the health of the population are edged to the margins or never addressed .
15 Thick felt-tip pens can be used to good effect .
16 Table lamps and lamp standards can be used to good effect when showing off the house in the evening or on dark winter afternoons .
17 At whatever level Procedure Audit is applied , it is a worthy addition to the toolboxes of all analysts or managers who are concerned at any time with making improvements of a procedural nature , and provides a further example of how soft systems ideas can be used to good effect for everyday analysis work .
18 This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining .
19 Sauce is n't all that cranberries are fit for — they can be used to good effect in a number of recipes .
20 As long as this is respected , the rigidity can be used to good purpose .
21 Left : Scenes shot on telephoto appear to have compressed perspectives which can be used to good effect .
22 In addition , you must be able to choose small flowers and small parts of flowers that can be used to good effect .
23 Cabled rib is very attractive and can be used to good effect on an otherwise plain sweater .
24 It was still there , and would be used to good effect in the relatively near future when the pitched battle returned as the more usual way of deciding the outcome of wars .
25 However , this is no excuse for inaction , for a number of systems have been described which are of considerable assistance ; for example , the Telford system which relies largely on professional judgement can be used to good effect ( 1 ) .
26 It can provide information regarding the possible need to change management style , to accelerate , decelerate or even terminate the activity earlier and hence save scarce resources which can be used to good effect elsewhere .
27 A piano can be used to good effect with the organ , provided its pitch is compatible .
28 This approach can also be used to good effect with other well constructed languages : this is illustrated in { laws } , where a simple sequential language ( Dijkstra 's language of guarded commands unc is considered .
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