Example sentences of "they can [be] used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sauce is n't all that cranberries are fit for — they can be used to good effect in a number of recipes . |
| 2 | Originally designed for use with the popular five speed Taiwanese lathes , which are imported by a variety of companies , they can be used with other lathes to increase the capacity for bowl turning . |
| 3 | No alteration is necessary to the phones or their plug so they can be used with other equipment as normal . |
| 4 | The structures and vocabulary content of the six levels are graded to correspond with the six books of Start with English , although they can be used with any primary course . |
| 5 | ( In other words , they can be used with 2 operands . ) |
| 6 | They can be used with wet or dry sand . |
| 7 | They can be used for mixed media work as well with Faber-Castell 's Polychromos Colour pencils and Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils , since the colours are carefully co-ordinated across each of these product ranges . |
| 8 | As well as helping us transmute negative emotions such as anger , fear and hate into optimism and joy , they can be used for psychic protection — and the effect can be immediate . |
| 9 | The next job is to reconfigure the mexeflote rafts so that they can be used for other tasks . |
| 10 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 11 | Available in a wide range they can be used in many attractive combinations |
| 12 | Environmental manipulations have the considerable advantage that they can be used in wild populations , and they are also relatively quick . |
| 13 | Modern technology comes to the rescue here , however : solid-fuel handling systems , developed by British Coal , allow automatic fuelling from an outside coal store ; de-ashing systems have improved , making the job quicker and easier ; smokeless fuels have made the burning of fires possible even in cities ; and some modern solid fuel stoves , which can be installed in front of a fireplace , burn so efficiently that they can be used in smokeless zones . |