Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even something from the day 's newspaper can be all that is needed as an effective starting-point , just as the latest or the most interesting work done in other subject areas of the curriculum may be used . |
| 2 | The Ld score of any character with the Animal Care , Animal Handling or Charm Animal skills may be used instead . |
| 3 | Point estimates of aquifer recharge can be made from single profiles , and several profiles may be used together to determine regional recharge . |
| 4 | Management awareness profiles may be used to present maternity units ' statistics graphically . |
| 5 | Provide information and assistance to ensure that ICI 's products may be used , stored and disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner . |
| 6 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 7 | Finally , and perhaps most significantly of all , test cases may be used as political catalysts ‘ to spark off a process in the political arena , ( Prosser , 1983 , p. 5 ) in the hope of extending the rights of those concerned . |
| 8 | One advantage is that if for any reason the storage system becomes unused the building may be used for other purposes . |
| 9 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 10 | Resistor R1 is shown as two 0.47ohms 3W types ‘ wired ’ in parallel , but a single 0.22ohms resistor of 6W rating may be used instead . |
| 11 | Haslam paints the picture of a corporate impresario who recognises the various talents and skills of those around him and orchestrates events so that these talents may be used to the greatest benefit of the enterprise . |
| 12 | The following keywords may be used in the RDBI configuration file : |
| 13 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 14 | At an unconscious level , distaste , lack of desire or avoidance of bodily intimacy may be used as a defence against the experience of ultimate aloneness which can follow the fusion of intercourse . |
| 15 | In substantial problems , this technique may be used many times before one finally resolves the question . |
| 16 | The double column technique may be used for this challenging process and to record further progress ( see Figure 5.4 ) . |
| 17 | The same technique may be used within the canon of a single author . |
| 18 | This technique may be used when the Bank is keen to produce a change in interest rates faster than that which could be obtained by waiting for bill offers to respond to an initial rejection of bids by the Bank : it was used more frequently in 1988 and 1989 , especially as a method of signalling the Bank 's desire to see higher short term interest rates . |
| 19 | Thus Part Three examines the responses of a third State to an international crime of State , taking as a particular example acts of aggression , and examines how the concept of State responsibility may be used to bring some overall cohesion into the third party problem . |
| 20 | More informal pain assessment may be used , taking into account physiological and behavioural indices and the invasiveness of current treatment , with the aim of enabling the baby to be relaxed but responsive to carers . |
| 21 | Ultrasound scans may be used to give an internal picture , which can help in finding out whether you are expecting twins , whether your baby 's size ties in with your dates , and the position of the placenta in case it is low-lying in late pregnancy — covering the cervix and blocking the baby 's exit ( placenta praevia ) . |
| 22 | When new words are encountered , either the GPC route or the analogy route may be used , but given the inconsistencies of English , neither route will ensure the correct pronunciation . |
| 23 | Where more confidence in the average value is required more percentage values may be used , e.g. M9 is computed by provided the percentile values used are evenly spread through the distribution . |
| 24 | Fortunately , death or personal injury resulting from the use of a computer is a rare occurrence , but other forms of loss or damage might be more common ; for example , in a business context where a computer may be used to assist with decision-making , there is a strong probability that a financial loss will be blamed on the computer . |
| 25 | Of course , at the simplest possible level the PE spectrum may be used as a fingerprint , allowing us to identify a pure sample or a constituent of a mixture by comparison with known spectra . |
| 26 | It is because of this that observations in shear flows may be used for experimental investigations of the Kolmogorov law , eqn ( 20.11 ) . |
| 27 | Within the latter group , decline may be measured relatively or absolutely , and a number of different indices may be used . |
| 28 | We shall see in Section 5.14 how such frequency shifts may be used to provide precise information about the way in which the local modes contribute to the normal modes of vibration . |
| 29 | What fuels may be used in thermal power stations ? |
| 30 | Rectal suppositories may be used and are effective . |