Example sentences of "it can [be] used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be used for serious computing , as a ‘ poor man 's Apple Macintosh ’ , with Atari 's high-quality monochrome screen , and plugged into a TV set for games . |
| 2 | This arrangement is so flexible it can be used for anything from tennis to Holiday on Ice to huge international congresses and exhibitions . |
| 3 | A DBMS can store , retrieve , update and compare this information on millions of ‘ record cards ’ so that it can be used for business purposes . |
| 4 | It can be used for mending or bonding metals , china , glass and wood . |
| 5 | An adviser said : ‘ We do not see why we should allow foreign lotteries to take the money when it can be used for the benefit of Britain . ’ |
| 6 | Blitzer works with any felt tip pen , so it can be used for T-shirt design , craftwork with enamel pens , and even sugarcraft using food dye pens . |
| 7 | JB Weld works on iron , steel , aluminium , bronze , brass , copper pewter , all woods , ceramics and plastics , and it can be used for mechanical , automotive and plumbing jobs , as well as around the home and garden , and much more . |
| 8 | It can be used for seaming garments . |
| 9 | It can be used for stocking stitch , tuck stitch or jacquard . |
| 10 | So we 'll look at its casting off function first and then see how it can be used for linking . |
| 11 | If you have the YC5 model , as we saw last month , it can be used for single bed knitting . |
| 12 | When fully charged , it can be used for about 10 minutes on ‘ max ’ . |
| 13 | It can be used for a range of high speed control and logic functions , in workstations , RISC microprocessor motherboards , networking , graphics , industrial controllers . |
| 14 | It can be used for carry colour in washes even further . |
| 15 | 100–250 copies can be obtained from the master copy or it can be used for short runs until the carbon deposit is exhausted . |
| 16 | At the worst it can be used for making a cold frame or compost bin . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it can be used for sexing and the mouse amnion is a favourable source of nuclei ( 19 ) . |
| 18 | If the term has a meaning independent of the nature of the object , then it can be used for communication ( perhaps it means ‘ whatever is in the box ’ ) but the private object in the box drops out of consideration as irrelevant — an idle cog . |
| 19 | You perhaps get restoration of fishery or enhancement of amenity or enhancement of the quality of the water such that it can be used for a far wider spectrum of requirements than it was before . |
| 20 | Externally , it can be used for skin lesions , conjunctivitis and leg ulcers . |
| 21 | The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory . |
| 22 | If this can be kept in a place that is accessible to teachers , along with a monitor ( a small black and white one would do ) , then it can be used for teacher viewing and for setting a tape at the right place before a lesson . |
| 23 | It can be used for setting out plants , sowing large seeds individually and planting bulbs . |
| 24 | Uranium nuclides 238 U and 235 U decay to stable lead and this decay is the basis for a method applied to molluscs , coral and deep sea sediments which usefully complements 14 C dating because it can be used for materials up to 350,000 years in age . |
| 25 | It is n't so good at irregular layouts of the sort often used in advertising — but it can be used for this purpose . |
| 26 | It can be used for automatic generation of failure mode effect and criticality analysis , failure diagnosis , recovery procedure design , and the design of failure management systems . |
| 27 | A model represents something , usually in simplified form which highlights aspects which are of particular interest to the user , and is built so that it can be used for a specific purpose , for example , communication and testing . |
| 28 | Palisade , from The Marley Paving Company , is a deeper block and is the same size as the largest Classico pavior , it can be used for steps , raised borders or edge restraint . |
| 29 | One of the main advantages of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy over other non-operative techniques is that it can be used for 78% of patients , with stones of any composition , number and size , and a patent cystic duct is not essential . |
| 30 | It can be used for both machine washes on the wool programme or in hand washes . |