Example sentences of "not be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MONEY handed to Nuclear Electric to pay for future decommissioning work should not be used to finance a Sizewell C power station , environment campaigners claimed yesterday . |
| 2 | Mr Jones has criticised Mr Mandelson for announcing his candidature in a newspaper article and said that the spirit of the party 's selection code , which says the media should not be used to promote a candidate , may have been broken . |
| 3 | A moment 's thought will convince the reader that the crossed reading is prohibited here : this sentence can not be used to describe a situation where Arthur knows that the animal in question is an alsatian , but is unsure of its sex , while Mike knows that it is female , but thinks it might be a wolf . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |