Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 2 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |
| 3 | Given the small size of the balances they must have been used to weigh small quantities of a precious substance , but gold need not be the only material involved . |
| 4 | Police said a vehicle must have been used to carry away all the equipment and officers are asking anyone with information to contact them on Middlesbrough 326326 . |
| 5 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 6 | A ladder must have been used to gain access when the mill was in use . |
| 7 | Often the quality of the translation may be tested by examining the items indexed under a number of possible terms that might have been used to describe a subject in an index . |
| 8 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 9 | Perhaps a similar process might have been used to form the zodiac figures . |
| 10 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric might have been used to sharpen tactical differences and to make opponents look absurdly paranoid . |
| 11 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 12 | Carts might have been used to drag supplies up it , sufficient width was there . |
| 13 | Do you think , lad , that it might have been used to bring the body into the alley ? ’ |
| 14 | As part of that , the European social fund could have been used to give twice as much money to the area , because that is what Commissioner Millan wants to do , using the additionality provisions . |
| 15 | There are many possible computers which could have been used to exemplify the terms we have introduced . |
| 16 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 17 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 18 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 19 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 20 | Had the government of Kenya sold the confiscated tusks on the open market , the money generated could have been used to encourage systematic conservation . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock accused the Conservatives of squandering £100 billion of North Sea oil receipts on tax cuts when it could have been used to rebuild the country . |
| 22 | The budget could have been used to get this region and the country generally out of recession . |
| 23 | The machines could have been used to pace the workers , or management could have monitored the utilisation rate of the various machines . |
| 24 | ‘ The Commission would have to assess whether the evidence compiled by the Daily Mirror could have been used to obtain a conviction in criminal proceedings . |
| 25 | Behind him was a broom which could have been used to batter him . |
| 26 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 27 | Divisional Fire Officer Paul Gaze said at least a pint of petrol may have been used to fuel the fire . |
| 28 | Collect any powders , tablets or anything you think may have been used to take the drug . |
| 29 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 30 | Beer or wine may have been used to help produce the euphoric state . |