Example sentences of "be use [to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are used to clarify the relationships that exist between the variables that influence the buying situation , and to predict the outcome of change to these variables . |
| 2 | Darwin 's theories have been used to support the view that homo sapiens is the pre-eminent of species , and have fuelled beliefs in the morality of the survival of the fittest , whilst also lending support to positions , reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer 's , which emphasise universal kinship and the duty to care for the lowly and enfeebled . |
| 3 | However , the arguments which underlie the concept of justiciability can also be used to support the idea that in reviewing government decisions over which the courts are prepared to exercise control , they should only award remedies to aggrieved parties in cases where it can be said that the respondent has gone wrong in some fairly extreme way . |
| 4 | However , they also suggest that while this study can be used to support the view that university residence tends to reduce the probability of non-completion , the possibility that the residence factor may be acting as a proxy for other university characteristics , can not be dismissed ) . |
| 5 | Only if both these things are accepted can the further point that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ be used to promote the conclusion that we are not justified in attributing heat to material things . |
| 6 | Data already available from a national longitudinal survey of 12,000 children from birth to 10 years will be used to test the hypothesis that having a job outside the home can reduce the risk of maternal depression — particularly in socially disadvantaged mothers . |
| 7 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 8 | The idea can also be used to explain the fact that the galaxies are all receding from each other because , just like the Big Bang , the ‘ Little Bangs ’ create not space ( and trivia like matter and energy but spacetime . |
| 9 | Answer guide : This point should be used to illustrate the problems that arise when a trading cycle does not fit neatly into one year . |
| 10 | A date of birth ( 25/7/86 ) associated with a driving licence number ( 78700 199 ) and an identity number ( 19873 ) could be used to give the information that a person whose identity number is 19873 possesses a driving licence , even though that person is under the minimum legal age for driving motor vehicles . |
| 11 | In one sense welfare pluralism can be used to convey the fact that social and health care may be obtained from four different sectors — the statutory , the voluntary , the commercial and the informal . |
| 12 | But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story . |
| 13 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 14 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 15 | The RETURN key should be used to tell the system that all necessary information has been entered and the report should be produced using the supplied data . |
| 16 | The RETURN key should be used to tell the system that all necessary information has been entered and that the report should be produced using the supplied data . |
| 17 | I shall answer his question directly : we do not believe that the information should be denied to parents , but we believe that crude performance tables should not be used to distort the choices that parents make between different schools in Scotland , as would be the case if the Bill were implemented . |
| 18 | The term , when being used to justify the statement that increased quality reduces costs , really refers to reliability of the product and its delivery according to pre-specified attributes ( i.e. order-winning criteria ) . |
| 19 | Lastly , Ingolstadt is used to exemplify the approach that could be adopted in an historically important and attractive city centre . |
| 20 | For the most part , the PC 's central processor is used to perform the calculations that end up as pretty pictures on your monitor , but there is a way to take some of the load off the CPU . |
| 21 | The starting material is a polyether comprising a random copolymer of ethylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran — a copolymer is used to avoid the crystallinity that would result from homopolymer . |
| 22 | Every twitch , blink , yawn and movement is used to tell the patient that he is responding correctly . |
| 23 | This catalogue is used to check the books that the library holds on a particular subject . |
| 24 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 25 | Here , a computer-assisted technique known as Principal Components Analysis ( Horvath 1985 : 53 ) was used to examine the hypothesis that groups of speakers would show certain similarities in their linguistic behaviour . |