Example sentences of "should [not/n't] be used [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The institute stresses , however , that this should not be used to justify widespread use of such fertilisers , a major contributor to acid deposition . |
| 2 | MONEY handed to Nuclear Electric to pay for future decommissioning work should not be used to finance a Sizewell C power station , environment campaigners claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | For example , P. Paulden in ( 1982 ) iv ( 1 ) Liv LR 69 argued that the misuse of cheque cards or credit cards is a breach of contract ; the criminal law should not be used to penalise breaches of contract ; therefore , it should not be a crime to misuse a cheque card or credit card , and if the Act is to be used to penalise such breaches , Parliament should say so . |
| 4 | Of course , if conventionalism were just the semantic theory that the phrase " legal rights " should not be used to describe rights people have in virtue of consistency in principle , then a conventionalist judge could indeed take a lively interest in that form of consistency under a different description . |
| 5 | There are plenty of army officers , by no means all of them supporters of radical causes , who think the army should not be used to settle political arguments with the republics . |
| 6 | Cresson warned , however , that partial privatizations should not be used to ease the government 's financial problems . |
| 7 | Should not be used to relieve the effect of a traumatic delivery as there is insufficient research evidence regarding the effect on the liver which may have been compromised . |
| 8 | Mr Jones has criticised Mr Mandelson for announcing his candidature in a newspaper article and said that the spirit of the party 's selection code , which says the media should not be used to promote a candidate , may have been broken . |
| 9 | The authority was opposed to the use of the equipment by its force and was ‘ very concerned that such weapons should not be used to quell public demonstrations or riots because of the likelihood of serious personal injury or death thereby resulting to individuals ’ . |
| 10 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 11 | There is a consensus among the public that cars should not be used to go to work . |
| 12 | Consequently , the arguments presented in this section should not be used to dismiss centralized corporate planning . |
| 13 | The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled . |
| 14 | This further warning — that the film should not be used to wrap fatty foods — prompted the opening of a cling film " hotline " for confused consumers . |
| 15 | I shall answer his question directly : we do not believe that the information should be denied to parents , but we believe that crude performance tables should not be used to distort the choices that parents make between different schools in Scotland , as would be the case if the Bill were implemented . |
| 16 | The second was that force could not and should not be used to maintain Communist authority in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | The amount of HIV-1 testing , the proportion found infected when first having an HIV-1 test , and the numbers of HIV-1 infections diagnosed among homosexual/bisexual men between 1985 and 1989 , are a poor guide to the underlying incidence of HIV-1 infections and should not be used to interpret the AIDS incidence curve directly . |
| 18 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 19 | However , its efficiency advantages in these circumstances should not be used to infer that it is a panacea of organizational design . |
| 20 | The DPP members demanded that the National Assembly should not be used to amend the Constitution and claimed that the Kuomintang planned to protect its control of the political system by including undemocratic revisions , including the retention of emergency presidential powers . |
| 21 | You should be sure of why you are using quotations ; they should not be used to show off your reading or to give the impression of knowing more than you do . |
| 22 | Death duties , National Defence Contribution , perhaps other taxes or duties , would all be within the Revenue 's mind in deliberately choosing the wide word " taxation " , in order to make sure that their concession on transfers for other purposes should not be used to deprive the Revenue of other taxes than Income Tax or Sur-tax . |
| 23 | We 'd like them to say that the laws like the 1986 public order act , which after all was introduced to combat football hooliganism , and not to control people 's sexuality , should not be used to drag lesbians and gay men before the courts simply for showing their love for each other . |
| 24 | Given the technical and administrative problems that such a method would present in many classrooms and the artificiality which would be introduced , we recommend that tape recording ( audio or video ) should not be used to moderate the assessment of oral performance for SATs ( though it may , of course , be used by teachers or pupils , as part of their planned activities ) . |