Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] can [adv] [be] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , the two clerks are first introduced to us as " " testif " " , " testy " , " headstrong " , a French-derived adjective with horsy connotations of its own and which can indeed be used of horses in French . |
| 2 | As we have already noted , audio mixers are used to combine the signals from a number of microphones , and they can also be used as volume controllers . |
| 3 | The woven fabrics which I have described in the article are ideal for coats and jackets , and they can also be used to make a wide range of soft furnishing for the home , including cushion covers , rugs and table mats . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most iniquitous of all are the notorious ‘ closed ’ shops where everything is sold cheaply but which can only be used by the privileged state bureaucrats . |
| 12 | At the time of writing the only categories are see , go , stop and syntax ( syntax words are words like " in " , " of " and " and " , which would not be indexed or searched for in a subject search system , but which can possibly be used to modify the weighting of other words in a search request ) . |
| 13 | But they can also be used against predators . |
| 14 | Orcs and Savage Orcs are good fighting troops and can therefore be thought of as core units , but they can also be used as quality supporting troops if armed with missile weapons . |
| 15 | LEFT Reconstructions of sites , such as this crannog , can be tourist attractions , but they can also be used as experiments in showing how sites were constructed and how they appear when destroyed and excavated . |
| 16 | But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story . |
| 17 | Social services set out to meet needs , and to solve problems , but they can also be used to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of society . |
| 18 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 19 | While there are a number of on-screen drawing programs which allow the creation and manipulation of an image but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 20 | Many of these materials are expensive , but they can often be used successfully to decorate just one section of a room or part of the walls : above or below a dado rail for instance ; or as wall panels framed with timber mouldings , with a less expensive finish used on the rest of the wall . |
| 21 | Statistics of baptism , civil marriage and civil funerals , too , in some countries , may help , but they can only be used with difficulty . |
| 22 | Slim-line tension rods , which are telescopic , are used to carry net curtains neatly without any fixing brackets , but they can only be used within a window reveal as they spring out to grip the sides . |
| 23 | But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The AA also offers a cellphone , but it can only be used to call emergency services . |
| 30 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |