Example sentences of "technique can be used " in BNC.

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1 The same techniques can be used for bit image files .
2 Comparisons between countries might be based on qualitative judgement , but a variety of quantitative techniques can be used for analysis .
3 Statistical techniques can be used to compare survey data ( primary data ) collected in one country with survey data from another country , in order to test for similarities or differences between the countries .
4 Occasionally there are situations where two techniques can be used , and there may be good reason to apply both so that they provide supporting evidence for each other ( for example , see p. 134 for the use of TL and uranium series dating at Pontnewydd Cave ) .
5 Faulkner ( 1985 ) illustrates how counselling techniques can be used in the context of the nursing process .
6 Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units .
7 Breathing techniques can be used both for ‘ First Aid ’ and to prevent stress and tension from injuring your body .
8 It is therefore to be expected that many of the familiar solution generating techniques can be used to obtain new colliding plane wave solutions from already known , or ‘ seed ’ , solutions .
9 There will be further examples of assertiveness in the following chapter , showing how techniques can be used to influence .
10 Image processing techniques can be used to add the components together to form a composite image of the rock and to measure the proportions of the various minerals .
11 More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem .
12 A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture .
13 It shows that unproven fringe techniques can be used on the public with little policing from the body with a remit to protect patients from rogue doctors .
14 We briefly describe a number of variations on this idea below , However , while such techniques can be used effectively when programming in an assembler language , it is much more difficult for a compiler to recognize which constructions in a high-level language call for their use .
15 All of these techniques can be used with the spatial approach to provide various levels of integration .
16 All of these techniques can be used to explore the relation between handedness and hemispheric specialisation for language .
17 The mnemonic RAM reminds you of repetition , association and mnemonics , and these three techniques can be used in combination or separately to retain in your memory the facts , ideas or opinions that you encounter in your studies .
18 Where money rather than people is the primary concern , financial modelling techniques can be used .
19 It also seeks to refine the ways in which computer techniques can be used to handle complex social processes ( especially group and spacial dynamics ) through time .
20 Both techniques can be used to probe molecular motions in liquid or solid polymers , but when dielectric spectroscopy is used the relaxation or transition must involve movement of a dipole or a charge displacement if it is to be detected .
21 Gane and Sarson suggest that the techniques can be used to specify the system design and help in the implementation process .
22 Secondly , the technique can be used for any type of dissimilarity ; shape difference is just one example .
23 The same technique can be used for projections though this reintroduces some of the disadvantages — notably the bulk — of CRTs .
24 This same technique can be used for patients suffering from any type of phobia .
25 It is by no means a purely technical or scientific tool ; the technique can be used for teaching the differences between the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet forms .
26 This technique can be used , also , as part of a smaller scale , group-based pre-test .
27 The same technique can be used for foot in foot the bill and red in red hair , although perhaps marginally less convincingly .
28 This same technique can be used by a snail floating upside-down at the surface ; the foot gains sufficient purchase on the surface film to make steady progress .
29 Some prime numbers can usually be found that give a good transformation — in fact it is the high probability that any suitable prime chosen will do so , allied to the ease with which this technique can be used to fit any number of records into precisely the required storage space , that makes this such a convenient method .
30 When the number of enquiries gets too large for a logarithmic search , or even some form of interpolation search , an indexing technique can be used to retrieve records more quickly .
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