Example sentences of "[be] used [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
2 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
3 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
4 Lager yeast should be used but this is not always the case .
5 Out of necessity , some organic sprays may have to be used but this is avoided as much as possible .
6 Du Pont , a leading US chemical firm , said that HCFC-123 could still be used but more care should be taken with it .
7 ‘ Overt violence or other potentially injurious coercion is not to be used before noninjurious coercion has been exhausted ’ Bernard Berelson ( ex-President of the Population Council ) and Jonathan Lieberson
8 " There are some really wonderful foliage plants to be used and all those lovely shades of green are what you come back to — what you rely on . "
9 Only small machines can be used and much work is done by hand .
10 If present a mouse will be used and that can speed up operation of the game .
11 Pedestrian-friendly –unctions , incorporating speed tables , pinch points , and biased traffic signals could be used and enforced vehicle speed limits would be essential .
12 If one side , say the antimissile jamming device , pulled too far ahead in the design race , the other side , the missile in this case , would simply cease to be used and manufactured : it would go ‘ extinct ’ Far from being paradoxical like Alice 's original example , the Red Queen effect in its arms-race context turns out to be fundamental to the very idea of progressive advancement .
13 The guitar and the piano are perhaps the most common alternatives , but instruments of all kinds can be used and this gives encouragement to the formation of music groups .
14 Circumstantial evidence can be used and any evidence of similar conduct .
15 Slimline mixers should always be used and these may be drunk freely .
16 The whole plant , the root , stem , bark , leaves , flowers , petals , seeds , fruit , or even pollen could be used and these may be fresh , dried , or boiled .
17 More sensitive conventional cultures should be used when possible .
18 But their limitation has been that they can only be used when all the well data is available — after it has been drilled .
19 it can be used when other processes can not , eg when excavation is impossible , such as leaking storage tanks located under major buildings or highways ;
20 This might then be used when necessary , but be left empty in other cases .
21 This kind of broad band system is a model for those that will certainly be used when existing conventional online databases are enhanced with multimedia elements .
22 The written straddle shown in Fig. 7.11(b) may be used when little or no movement in the underlying security price is expected .
23 It can also be used when several results have already been found but people are unable to proceed further to a generalisation ; for instance , they may have failed to spot a linear relationship or a well-known number-sequence in their results .
24 They could always be used when any government wished to drag out proceedings or in some way be obstructive .
25 A Bundesbank report leaked on March 31 recommended that a conversion rate of two East German marks for one West German deutschmark be used when German monetary union was introduced , although the report advocated a 1:1 conversion rate for East German savings up to 2,000 Marks .
26 The charge code can now be used when reserving module names ( options 1.1.1 — Create Package / Product and 1.1.3 — Reserve Source , Foreign and Pmodel Modules ) .
27 Battens are plugged and screwed to the wall at 400mm ( 16in ) centres to take boards 1220mm ( 4ft ) wide , but of course other sizes of boards can be used if necessary .
28 The atomic weapon had been developed in the expectation that it would be used if necessary ; this was made explicit in the Hyde Park agreement signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in September 1944 .
29 The explanation is apparently that the proceedings were launched with little notice and J. 's mother and those advising her wished to have an opportunity of acquiring further expert evidence which would , they hoped , support her view and that which was then the view of the local authority , namely , that artificial ventilation should be used if necessary .
30 It is recommended that this is an approved version , although a development version may be used if necessary .
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