Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be used " in BNC.
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| 1 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 2 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 3 | I can be used to graphically estimate the rate of gas generation . |
| 4 | In a letter to members , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association warns against schemes ‘ with no guarantee of adequate resources ; which may blur the process of professional development with the identification of alleged weaknesses for disciplinary purposes ; and which may be used as a crude and inequitable process for relating salary rates to arbitrarily judged levels of performance ’ . |
| 5 | Which would you choose ? ( 3 ) There is now a rumour that the family has another house , which may be used for organizing the syndicate , in addition to/ instead of the house you are observing , but you do n't know the location of the other house . |
| 6 | Drawing a parallel with domestic appliances , such as refrigerators and freezers , which may be used in laboratories , it has been suggested that the average electricity consumption of newly purchased appliances in the UK is considerably higher than the best available in Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ Professionalism ’ and ‘ relationships ’ ( or ‘ confidential relationships ’ ) are also relevant words in this discussion which may be used in a way that is highly supportive of , or very antagonistic to , access to information by the person to whom it relates . |
| 8 | Turning to the use of fuels for IC vehicles which do not use up vital oil reserves or which may be used when oil is no longer available , the use of hydrogen has been suggested as one of the answers to future transport fuel needs . |
| 9 | This is one of the ‘ customary ’ names which may be used . |
| 10 | The juice from this residue , called the taille , is the poorest in terms of quality which may be used for Champagne . |
| 11 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 12 | The World Health Organisation 's recipe for ORS included an alternative basic salt , namely trisodium citrate , which may be used in place of the sodium bicarbonate ( as given in Table 1 ) . |
| 13 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 14 | Some organisations have company housing which may be used by employees who are transferred to the new area but have yet to complete their house purchases there . |
| 15 | These booklets contain more than four hundred ideas for communicative activities , role plays and games which may be used in class to supplement the Streamline course work . |
| 16 | The consortium intends picking suppliers for federated naming ( which may be used in the object management system to enhance seamless support for multiple object managers ) , multimedia support and object management in the third quarter . |
| 17 | Natural waters , including surface waters and shallow groundwaters , contain information about mobile weathering products which may be used in a complimentary manner to stream sediment and soil sampling ( Edmunds , 1971 ) . |
| 18 | The trace provides a permanent record , which may be used , for example , to show that the poor condition of a baby at birth was neither predictable nor preventable . |
| 19 | And finally the distinction which each writer makes between forms of law provides normativism with a distinct conception of law which may be used to identify degenerate forms of law . |
| 20 | A term which may be used to describe a decision which is liable to be quashed ( whether illegal or not ) is ‘ invalid ’ . |
| 21 | The ‘ Leopardi ’ apartment is just outside the castle walls , whilst the ‘ Carducci ’ and ‘ Fucini ’ apartments are next to the excellent swimming pool and tennis courts which may be used by Citalia guests . |
| 22 | Finally , three Articles of the Convention deal with other international arrangements which may be used . |
| 23 | It becomes difficult then to adduce abstract principles which should have a life of their own , quite apart from whether they have been exemplified within history , which may be used to judge history . |
| 24 | However , where , as in the case of arithmetic , subject matter is defined by characteristic tasks which may be used to assess its attainment , criteria may be written subsequently to test items , as a description of typical items . |
| 25 | In a Library-College ( if one existed ) the library contains rooms which may be used by teachers for small or large group sessions , and there are laboratories , gymnasia , music rooms and so forth leading off but essentially the library is the dominant body . |
| 26 | The possible alternative programmes which may be used to fulfil the desired objectives are compared based on the effectiveness of each in achieving the organisational objectives . |
| 27 | A further example of this is shown in Table 8.1 ; each personnel record holds a number of fields , any one of which may be used as a key . |
| 28 | Hardy suggests two types of strategy which may be used to turn conflict into competition or argument , or to manage it in some other acceptable way . |
| 29 | Policing at all levels now recognises the need to accumulate and maintain ‘ low-level intelligence ’ which may be used to anticipate or pre-empt disorder . |
| 30 | By repeatedly mentioning the example of the access to the Duddon and naming very few other rivers which may be used he probably paints a truer access picture than he intends . |