Example sentences of "can be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be used to purchase a wheelchair and buy or hire a suitably adapted car or van to restore freedom of movement . |
| 2 | It would be inefficient and uneconomical to avoid such terminology when it can be used to crystallise a concept . |
| 3 | Much emphasis is placed on the ease with which data can be passed from one program to another , information from the customer data base can be used to update a spreadsheet model for instance . |
| 4 | It can be used to assign a value to a variable or as part of a test . |
| 5 | In Chapter 4 it was demonstrated that spot and debt can be used to replicate a futures contract . |
| 6 | Before the expression ‘ public law ’ can be used to deny a subject a right of action in the court of his choice it must be related to a positive prescription of law , by statute or by statutory rule . |
| 7 | Thus formative evaluation provides information which can be used to improve a course , whereas summative evaluation can be used to provide information about the overall worth of a given course , to help in the decision as to whether or not the course should be continued . |
| 8 | The network of squares which cover ordnance survey maps can be used to pinpoint a spot to within 100 metres , giving it a 6-figure number . |
| 9 | Similarly , Branchplan can be used to generate a plot of customer distribution around a particular store location . |
| 10 | If word recognition is completed before the context can be used to generate a prediction , then the context would not be expected to have much of an effect upon the word , and more experienced readers do appear to be less influenced by context . |
| 11 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 12 | For the Spectrum owner who is either using or considering the purchase of a Microdrive system an interface unit may be unnecessary as the Microdrive interface itself is supplied with a serial interface which can be used to drive a printer . |
| 13 | Meraklon and fibrepile linings can be used to upgrade a bag in cold weather . |
| 14 | Another TSR , Certify , can be used to compare a file 's checksum as it is opened , with a previous calculated checksum . |
| 15 | The description ‘ extended ’ can be used to describe a two- or three-volume work which has been enlarged to eight or ten volumes by the accumulation of extra illustration . |
| 16 | Epidemiologist Gerardo Heiss , and other researchers from the University of North Carolina , found that current levels of cholesterol can be used to predict a person 's mortality rate for the next 10 years . |
| 17 | The above procedure gives a flavour of how the assumption of rational expectations can be used to give a model of the term structure of interest rates which can be tested . |
| 18 | Assuming without deciding that the privilege of self-incrimination can be used to prevent a process being set in train ‘ which may lead to incrimination or the discovery of real evidence of an incriminating character ’ I consider that the defendants are sufficiently safeguarded in the circumstances of this case . |
| 19 | All of the instruments so far mentioned can be used to play a melody as well as chords . |
| 20 | And you mentioned , then , how a floppy disk — that 's a sort of disk storage device — can be used to get a book printed , is this being used at all in practice , or is it just a daydream ? |
| 21 | And you mentioned then how a floppy disk , that 's a sort of disk storage device , can be used to get a book printed . |
| 22 | Black , angular items can be used to aquascape a tank in a modern , hi-tech styled room , or gentler shapes and colours in a more traditional room . |
| 23 | Remember too that a nanny , like the rest of us , is unlikely to have vast assets which can be used to satisfy a claim . |
| 24 | Area analysis can be used to provide a company with information about the different types of people living in a particular area . |
| 25 | DEFM can be used to load a string of ASCII characters into memory . |
| 26 | The entity model is just another view of the organisation , but it is a particular perception of reality and it can be used to address a number of problems . |
| 27 | Others such as geologists or naturalists may be able to collect that information much more rapidly , but again it may be years before it can be used to produce a theory of evolution . |
| 28 | Two minutes of video can provide an hour of classroom work , or it can be used to introduce a change of activity for five minutes . |
| 29 | The drawing technique of shared radii can be used to construct a variety of curvilinear shapes . |
| 30 | One command-line switch will make use of a maximum of 512K of expanded memory , either EMS 3.2 or 4.0 ; another will put overlays into extended memory ; a third disables the ‘ degree of freedom ’ facility for errors in curve fitting , and a fourth can be used to disable a mouse even if one if fitted and nominally active . |