Example sentences of "[conj] it can [adv] [be] use " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the disinfection role a sterilising sink has a useful secondary role in providing heated soaking facilities for heavily soiled small equipment although it can not be used for both roles at the same time .
2 Trampling over it may damage it so that it ca n't be used .
3 The only disadvantage of the method is that it can not be used for certain solvents , such as alcohol , which do n't appear to be absorbed by Tenax .
4 Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause .
5 Here , surely , are sufficient examples to show that , however banal or simple our definition of democracy , it soon turns out that it can not be used as a plain , uncomplicated term of description at all .
6 This is not to say that it can not be used , merely that it is less than efficient .
7 It would be grossly unfair to suggest that it can not be used by anyone else , but the degree of achievement attained by such users will be limited
8 The machinery is so specialist that it can not be used for any other purpose .
9 The weapon has a shorter range than the Repeater Hand Gun but it has the advantage that it can also be used in hand-to-hand fighting .
10 Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person .
11 It is certainly worth taking advantage of the Use-Wysiwyg command on the Services menu but notice that it can only be used in SHEET mode .
12 This aircraft does have the advantage of a bench seat in the back which is removable , so it can still be used as a four-seater if you watch the weight and balance .
13 It is just a question of knowing when to use it : not , I would think , for food , or , usually , cosmetics ; but illustration appears to be more successful than photography for fashion , and it can clearly be used for most other types of product .
14 Finally , if the manager were to get into financial difficulties , and his or her creditors required payment , it should be clear that no money in this account belongs to the manager , and it can not be used to settle the manager 's personal debts .
15 It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home .
16 It will effectively clean paint roller sleeves , hammer in or extract mails or tacks , remove grout , putty , etc , and it can also be used as a filling knife , and as an emergency screwdriver .
17 It gives a terrific boost to the volume of your hair , and it can also be used for styling a few special details , because it stays pliable while you create them .
18 It claims that the kit will enable companies to develop distributed , high-performance object-oriented applications that harness the full potential of the 32-bit Windows NT environment — and do it cost-effectively — and it can also be used to develop and deploy object-oriented applications under Windows 3.1 .
19 It claims that the kit will enable companies to develop distributed , high-performance object-oriented applications that harness the full potential of the 32-bit Windows NT environment — and do it cost-effectively — and it can also be used to develop and deploy object-oriented applications under Windows 3.1 .
20 for so long as may be necessary to enable the vehicle , if it can not be used for such purpose without stopping in that length of road , to be used for fire brigade , ambulance or police purposes or in connection with any building operation , demolition or excavation , the removal of any obstruction to traffic , the maintenance , improvement or reconstruction of that length of road , or the laying , erection , alteration , repair or cleaning in or near to that length of road of any traffic sign or sewer or of any main , pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas , water or electricity , or of any telegraph or telephone wires , cables , posts or supports .
21 But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none .
22 This paradigm can be used to study child-child communication , but it can also be used in a more controlled fashion , in which the experimenter takes the role of one participant in order to control more precisely one side of the communication process .
23 Without vowel points these words look identical : " Ip. " eleph is the ordinary word for " thousand " , but it can also be used in a variety of other senses : e.g. " family " ( Judges 6:15 , Revised Version ) or " clan " ( Zechariah 9:7 ; 12:5 , 6 , Revised Standard Version ) or perhaps a military unit .
24 Thus not only can the dichotic listening paradigm be employed as a tool for investigating brain asymmetry but it can also be used to probe the nature of speech perception .
25 An SSR is used to reply to an SPR , but it can also be used simply as a means of disseminating information about one or more modules , in which case it need not refer to an SPR .
26 An SSR is used to reply to an SPR , but it can also be used simply as a means of disseminating information about one or more modules , in which case it need not refer to an SPR .
27 The AA also offers a cellphone , but it can only be used to call emergency services .
28 ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair .
29 ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better .
30 ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better .
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