Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] used [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of sequence could be used to build up a picture of a patient suffering from a specific condition . |
| 2 | Maybe they could be used to build up the spiritual life . |
| 3 | Besides , there was the possibility that the Visigoths could be used to shore up the Empire . |
| 4 | Giving very high lift with small drag at take-off , but high lift and high drag on landing , these flaps could be used to tighten up the turning radius in combat . |
| 5 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 6 | This curious instruction may be used to pad out an instruction sequence so that it occupies a desired length of time or storage . |
| 7 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 8 | An activator may be used to speed up the process but certain basic principles should be borne in mind . |
| 9 | This spell may be used to freeze over an entire body of water anywhere on the battlefield , for example an entire river , a marsh , or a lake . |
| 10 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 11 | This work will be used to draw up a definition and typology of cases of organised abuse , and to identify significant practice and inter-agency issues . |
| 12 | The money will be used to set up the trail and to produce a waterproof colour guide . |
| 13 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 14 | The feedback from college staff , subject assessors and Field Officers will be used to carry out a detailed evaluation of the model . |
| 15 | The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project . |
| 16 | They will be used to bring in the rock crushing plant , the industrial chemicals and the explosives . |
| 17 | In this section some familiar examples of gravitational and inertial forces will be used to bring out the correspondence between these forces and the metric connections . |
| 18 | If they pay most of your legal costs the contributions will be used to make up the difference and you will be refunded anything left over . |
| 19 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 20 | The action research of the Brunel school can be used to draw out the key advantages of the controlled authority . |
| 21 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 22 | Discussion of the number of guesses recorded can be used to point out the different kinds of letter order in words . |
| 23 | This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide . |
| 24 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 25 | Bulletin boards and list servers can be structured like company e-mail in that subsections can be used to follow up a particular discussion or to follow through all the different accounts and editions so that one person can go back and read the whole story from the beginning to the last entry . |
| 26 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 27 | This cash can be used to pay off the loan . |
| 28 | This can be used to pay back the capital you borrow now . |
| 29 | If , of course , the room is quite big , all sorts of divider devices can be used to partition off a dining area , from screens of one sort or another to large indoor plants or trees . |