Example sentences of "be use [verb] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So possibly it might be used to deal with disorders of those effects . |
| 2 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
| 3 | The term collocation will be used to refer to sequences of lexical items which habitually co-occur , but which are nonetheless fully transparent in the sense that each lexical constituent is also a semantic constituent . |
| 4 | Biological " tracers " placed on farms can be used to match against samples of polluted water . |
| 5 | His talks in Madrid with Prime Minister Felipe González ended with a joint political declaration and agreement on a package of economic and cultural agreements included the granting to the Soviet Union of 150,000 million pesetas ( US$1,500 million ) of Spanish credit to be used to pay for imports of Spanish consumer goods . |
| 6 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |