Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be used " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives .
2 This form of pre-verbal communication may then provide a highly supportive context for the child to interpret adult speech and actively to test her own hypotheses about how words can be used to assist communication .
3 Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter .
4 Radio programmes or ‘ talking book ’ tape recordings can be used for the same purpose .
5 Spare marzipan trimmings can be used to make little flowers to surround the toadstool .
6 These images can be used as desktop wallpapers , if only you could decide which to use .
7 In a similar , but elegant form of these latter experiments ( ) , conventional , 10–20 nanosecond laser pulses can be used .
8 Protein-rich pulses can be used as the basis of many delicious hot meals , snacks and salads .
9 If you 've defined several different types of heading and paragraphs styles for use in a complex report , those styles can be used again when you next have to work on a document in a similar format .
10 Linked lists can be used to implement stacks and queues .
11 Where these can be related definitely to known diseases then appropriate remedies can be used .
12 Proprietary ( and some home-based ) remedies can be used in two ways — in a short-term bath , or added to the pond .
13 This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide .
14 Reading need not be a solitary activity : there are a number of ways in which readers can be used to encourage classroom interaction .
15 The plant is built around a modular system which means the reaction vessels can be used for various purposes and new parts can be added when required .
16 Some finishes can be used for all purposes .
17 However , the presence of feldspar ‘ suites ’ containing consistent proportions of the rarer red and/or green emitter grains amongst the common blue emitters can be used to trace particular sources of clastic feldspar supply ( e.g. Stow & miller , 1984 ) .
18 Sticks or twigs can be used for poles , and ‘ chains ’ or necklaces suspended from ‘ pole ’ to ‘ pole ’ .
19 Individual units can be used as supplementary material with other courses .
20 The relationships between which modules are stored on which media items and which media units can be used is maintained within the Offline System .
21 Low settings can be used to cut metalwork or ceramic tiles , mid-range for plastics , and the ‘ E ’ setting for woodwork .
22 The brakes can be used fiercely to minimise the roll , but we let aerodynamic drag do most of the work , leaving them to slow us to taxi speed and steer onto the taxiway ( still ineffectually prodding the rudder pedals ) .
23 So the same signals can be used for quite different purposes .
24 Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method .
25 Desktop computers can be used as electronic mailboxes into which messages can be posted at a moment 's notice for a correspondent to return to .
26 Computers can be used in a number of ways to assist users :
27 The third section , ‘ Schemes of Work ’ , shows how computers can be used to meet the needs of different groups of students .
28 Comparisons with computers can be used for the data transfer elements of this process , modelling the flow of sequential current variations along circuits , and also for the transfer of information , in the form of structured data ( i.e. the computer program ) which interacts with the information processing elements of the communicating machines .
29 At the simplest level , many of the systems require an ‘ external ’ computer and an existing installed base will be helpful — so long , of course , as the computers can be used with the multimedia systems ( see 4.10 below ) .
30 The philosophy of the new SZ series follows on from the successful SZH research stereo providing interchangeability and versatility — indeed the SZ heads can be used with the SZH stand for superior transmitted light .
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