Example sentences of "could be used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Described as an innovation were little packs ( or growbags ) of planting soil that could be used under gravel to improve your results . |
| 2 | With this in mind , I set about designing a circuit which could be used with an existing meter ( preferably a digital type ) . |
| 3 | Also , such a multi-skilled workforce meant , claimed Wilkinson , that a shiftwork system could be used with a minimum of supervision . |
| 4 | Deep , thick fringing could be used with velvet or linen drapes , whereas a delicate edging would suit lighter curtains . |
| 5 | As commander-in-chief — he would not co-operate with Spanish generals on any other terms — Wellington was loth to regard native troops as an instrument that could be used with safety in battle . |
| 6 | Speadsheets have not so far figured largely as a resource for history , but they could be used with certain types of documentary sources . |
| 7 | The other important rule change is that whereas prior to 8 April 1987 AVC plans could be used towards funding an individual 's lump sum , this is no longer permitted . |
| 8 | Whereas in the past the boards would say that advanced calculators could be used without additional calculating programmes or memory banks , such programmes and data banks are incorporated in the latest generation of machines as a matter of course . |
| 9 | The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking . |
| 10 | He ( Anderson ) played on a sexual stereotype , saying she was young , black , ‘ the best sex he had ever had ’ — anything that could be used as an excuse . ’ |
| 11 | In any case , the British hoped for an American-British-Dominions agreement that could be used as a basis on which to invite other countries to a conference . |
| 12 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 13 | For Engels , therefore , the study of systems of kin terms revealed previously existing systems of consanguinity and could be used as evidence for the history of kinship and social organization . |
| 14 | They had a few creams , too — aloe-vera gel and wheat-germ oil ; these could be used as an alternative to the more expensive big-brand names . |
| 15 | She suggests that abortion was probably the most prevalent form of contraception for working-class women before 1914–25 She also notes that chemist shops sold quinine , which could be used as a spermicide or as a drug to procure abortion , that a wide variety of drugs were used to achieve abortion , and that advertisers offered many female pills , such as Widow Welch 's Female Pills and Towle 's Pills , which were , in effect , abortifacients . |
| 16 | The sentencing decision in Billam ( 1986 ) marks out some of the more serious varieties of sexual assault , and this could be used as a basis for introducing a new scheme of three or four graded offences : there are precedents for this in other countries . |
| 17 | They could be used as real models of rule . |
| 18 | Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub . |
| 19 | Until now , the bridge had been believed to date to the 1820s , when the dilapidated castle was re-clad in fresh stone so that part of its keep could be used as an expanded county prison . |
| 20 | SAVE challenged this , succeeded in getting the building listed and argued that the building could be used as an extension for a nearby office that already had on-site car-parking . |
| 21 | Grades H1 and H2 in the Hills and Uplands Classification could be used as the starting point for inclusion . |
| 22 | Grades U3 and U4 land in the Hills and Uplands Classification could be used as the starting point for inclusion . |
| 23 | For example , if surgery were performed to remove all nerves supplying the part from which the complaint originated , this could be used as a test to decide if the word pain could be used to describe the condition which disappeared after the operation . |
| 24 | The idea is not to attempt all these at once — rather they could be used as sections in a loose leaf file and added to at intervals . |
| 25 | Michael Collins , who had been killed in the course of the Civil War , had argued that the Treaty could be used as ‘ the stepping stones to freedom ’ . |
| 26 | Aeration , particularly , could be used as a design feature . |
| 27 | On the outside of the bulkhead , under the half-canopy there was a glass bullseye lens with a red slide so that it could be used as a tail lamp . |
| 28 | After the idea of a dead-letter drop had been made clear to Postelnicu with some difficulty , the new minister took the intelligence officer to his bathroom and asked if the lavatory 's water-cistern could be used as a letter drop . |
| 29 | Perhaps more important , the point of requiring reasons for refusal would surely be so that — in cases of unfair refusal — these could be used as a basis for putting matters right . |
| 30 | He had no parents , wife and children … not even a girl-friend who could be used as a weapon of enslavery against him . |