Example sentences of "[adv] be used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fibre-rich diets such as the F-Plan Diet are rated as acceptable , while very low-calorie diets , such as the Cambridge diet , should only be used under medical supervision . |
| 2 | Microscopes can only be used for close work , telescopes for viewing objects from arm 's length distance to infinity . |
| 3 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 4 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |
| 5 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 6 | The growth in the use of microcomputers in organizations means that people have become much less dependent on a central computer , which need only be used for large scale operations . |
| 7 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 8 | This method can only be used for non-porous and crystalline rocks ( particularly limestones ) , as the lead tends to be forced into any pores and , unlike powdered abrasives , it can not be washed away . |
| 9 | Soya based formulas should only be used with medical advice when a baby is known to be allergic to cow 's milk formula , as soya protein is just as allergenic as cow 's milk . |
| 10 | There were three filling stations side by side which could only be used with French credit cards , ’ said Mr Brown , a 48-year-old college lecturer , of Craven Vale . |
| 11 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 12 | Garlic , for example , must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin . |
| 13 | Punning , coining and wordplay are not immediately accessible to many readers ; and as sustained devices , they can only be used in written texts , not in everyday speech . |
| 14 | In ‘ Capital ’ Marx wrote that the ‘ immanent laws of capitalist production itself lead to ‘ the growth of the cooperative form of the labour process , the conscious technical application of science … the transformation of the means of labour into forms which can only be used in common , the economising of all means of production by their use as the means of production of combined , socialised labour ’ ( 1976 , p. 929 ) . |
| 15 | The use of this method in the mouse is currently in its infancy and since the procedure requires cells to pass through a round of replication in the presence of BrdU , it can only be used in cultured cells , which , because of the numbers required , are limited to third passage embryonic fibroblasts from pooled day 12 — IS embryos . |
| 16 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 17 | And more importantly , most rural schools do n't have electricity , so the television programmes could only be used in urban areas . |
| 18 | In R v East Sussex CC , ex pR [ 1990 ] FLR 837 the President of the Family Division supported this view and said that judicial review should only be used in exceptional circumstances to challenge a case conference decision which did not result in a child 's removal from home . |
| 19 | The pilot scheme can only be used by consenting parties which consent can not be withdrawn without leave of the court . |
| 20 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 21 | For example , in Thai the morpheme khrab is a polite particle that can only be used by male speakers , the corresponding form reserved for female speakers being kha ( Haas , 1964 ) . |
| 22 | However they should no longer be used for summative assessment and need not be retained for inspection by the Subject Assessor . |
| 23 | Moving averages would normally be used for short term forecasting , perhaps up to a maximum of a few ( say 3 to 6 ) months ahead . |
| 24 | Exponential smoothing would again normally be used for short term forecasting , for periods up to six months ahead . |
| 25 | This could easily be used by other members of a herd as a way of naming an individual zebra . |
| 26 | a simple embedded mark-up that can easily be used by other tools . |
| 27 | Sadly , they can very easily be used in fatal proportions , even on the first use . |
| 28 | Such standard thin sections ( STs ) can be produced by hand or with machine aid : they will usually be used for rapid bulk sample examination or in teaching collections where robustness outweighs their limited resolution . |
| 29 | The RAF said that while the Wessex will remain grounded until the outcome of the inquiry into the North Wales crash , the helicopters will still be used for essential rescue missions and in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Once sheep is acquired , for instance , the word dog is no longer over-extended to sheep , even though it may still be used for other kinds of mammals ( Clark , 1973a , 1978 ; Barrett , 1978 ) . |