Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] use [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SPECIAL tax or a levy on lawyers should be used to pay for legal aid work , it was suggested yesterday . |
| 2 | This is not something that attendances allowance should be , should be used to pay for , and I think that unless we look at it very carefully indeed , and we perhaps get around to having a proper chairman for each committee instead of this sort of er , bugginses chart er , we 're going to be faced with , with lots of difficulties . |
| 3 | This Form should be used to apply for an ordinary driving licence and for entitlement to drive Large Goods Vehicles ( LGVs ) and/or Passenger Carrying Vehicles ( PCVs ) . |
| 4 | Consequently a simple histogram constructed from the mass and molar mass of each fraction will not provide a good representation of the distribution and a method must be used to compensate for the overlapping . |
| 5 | Their idea is to examine the feasibility of a one-step diagnostic to indicate the presence of a particular molecule , such as might be used to test for the presence of surfactant . |
| 6 | On the other hand , meritocracy could be used to argue for comprehensives , as in Coventry or Middlesex , as well as grammar schools as in Birmingham or Leeds . |
| 7 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 8 | Deffenbacher ( 1983 ) reviewed the literature available on the relationship between emotional arousal and eyewitness testimony and concluded that the results were consistent with the idea that the general inverted-U relationship between arousal and performance could be used to account for the memory findings . |
| 9 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |
| 10 | But it also offered other advantages — protection of British jobs against cheap foreign imports , and an inflow of customs duties to the Treasury which could be used to pay for the escalating costs of both armaments and social reforms . |
| 11 | Considerable variation was found within this population and comparisons are currently being made between those children who might be regarded as readers of poor , average and high ability to establish whether different patterns of cognitive abilities may be used to account for this variation . |
| 12 | Many are funded and developed in conjunction with the Science and Engineering Research Council and may be used to qualify for postgraduate diplomas or an MSc . |
| 13 | This data will be used to test for any link between top executive pay and company performance . |
| 14 | It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles . |
| 15 | For example , it is capital expenditure that will finance the development of a new leisure centre while current expenditure will be used to pay for the running costs , for example staff , heating and lighting , etc . |
| 16 | Provided the number of information arrivals is sufficiently large , the central limit theorem can be used to argue for normality in the distributions of price changes ( over a given number of information arrivals ) , and volume ( over a given number of information arrivals ) . |
| 17 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 18 | There is then tremendous financial and social pressure on individual workers which can be used to account for high levels of commitment to the company . |
| 19 | Unlike the subject-predicate distinction , the notions of theme and rheme can be used to account for the acceptability ( rather than grammaticality ) of a given sequence in a given context . |
| 20 | The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above . |
| 21 | The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation |
| 22 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 23 | If there is still any doubt , the LIFESPAN validation program can be used to check for self consistency of the database . |
| 24 | The Air Miles that you collect can be exchanged for Holiday Vouchers that can be used to pay for all or part of your holiday . |
| 25 | Midland eurocheques can be used to pay for goods and services at more than 5 million shops , garages , hotels and restaurants in 28 European countries . |
| 26 | 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 . |