Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] used [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that the term achnelith ( Greek , ‘ spray stones ’ ) should be used to describe pyroclastic particles which originated from lavas so fluid that they owe their shape more to the effects of surface tension than any other cause . |
| 2 | All available communication channels should be used to promote these techniques . |
| 3 | Implementation is capable of different strategies which may and should be used to suit different circumstances . |
| 4 | OPENOUT should be used to create new files , or overwrite old ones . |
| 5 | The union fears that the Government intends to link merit pay and promotion to an appraisal scheme , and believes that instead it should be used to improve professional skills . |
| 6 | It will be necessary to decide on the amount of resource to be invested in management development , and what mechanism should be used to allocate these resources . |
| 7 | Various materials , particularly those data constituted by research , should be used to identify these practices . |
| 8 | Severe contention exists about whether a rule-based or statistical approach should be used to apply syntactic constraints . |
| 9 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 10 | In the millennium Richard Norton-Taylor thinks that worker-farmer cooperatives should prevail , that large estates should be managed by local communities , and that the land should be used to meet expressed needs of the people . |
| 11 | What other information should be used to supplement such forecasts ? |
| 12 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 13 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 14 | In Chapter 3 , we saw that , for general LPs , a two-phase method , maximising in Phase I , could be used to tackle such problems . |
| 15 | In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner . |
| 16 | These courses could be used to improve existing skills as well as to provide training for newcomers to the industry — be they school leavers or persons purchasing a farm . |
| 17 | However , the initial investigation had revealed that there was some potential for the use of a computer to support the primary functions ( ie identifying and meeting resident needs ) , which in addition could be used to support other tasks , such as processing financial transactions and records . |
| 18 | If one read the linguistic signs as pointing to something vaguely beyond the poem , to ‘ Something evermore about to be ’ ( Prelude 1805 , vi , 542 ) , then the poetry could be used to support innumerable creeds . |
| 19 | Or they could be used to design new strategies ; useful , for example , to politicians trying to get a policy on the agenda , or a sales manager trying to market a new product . |
| 20 | US critics opposed to the sale had said that the computer could be used to design nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | As the nursing profession waits to hear how it will do in the next pay round , there are fears that job evaluation could be used to take significant numbers of nurses out of current pay and grading structures , creating new pay set-ups unique to each different trust or unit . |
| 22 | As with the conditions imposed under section 12 , there is a danger that if they are too readily imposed , the powers could be used to implement disguised bans . |
| 23 | Once reliability was adequate , computers could be used to control chemical plants , scientific experiments , missiles in flight , and the like . |
| 24 | In its various forms it could be used to finance private roads , regulate traffic on the M25 and bring order to inner-city roads . |
| 25 | At the same time its hardness meant that it could be used to impress softer substances such as clay or wax without incurring wear . |
| 26 | If pupils and staff together planned how money saved in these areas could be used to provide better facilities and recreational opportunities then perhaps these problems could be overcome . ) |
| 27 | It was with such questions in mind that , in 1985 , we invited a group of social anthropologists who had fieldwork experience in societies which , for whatever reason , they described as ‘ peaceful ’ to attend an informal seminar to discuss the issues involved in interpreting such societies and how our ‘ evidence ’ could be used to question established theories on human nature . |
| 28 | While there are tools that have more stitch hooks ( optional ) and these could be used to make wider cables , a three over three pattern probably remains the most comfortable to work with . |
| 29 | Again , knowledge about physical properties and higher level attributes could be used to select alternative words . |
| 30 | The concept of ‘ effective enforcement ’ is not a very clear one ; but it is possible that it could be used to attack other rules which limit the remedies available against governmental bodies . |