Example sentences of "[modal v] be used [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence that ‘ person ’ should be used rather than ‘ man ’ , has produced endless jokes about Manchester being renamed Personchester or Mr and Mrs Freeman renaming themselves Mr and Mrs Freeperson . |
| 2 | Glaxo 's scientists say omeprazole should be used sparingly because it might cause cancer ; Astra believes its drug is no more dangerous than ranitidine and has worked hard to prove it . |
| 3 | Just as zooming should be done only for a good reason , panning is also a camera move which should be used sparingly if it is not to become visually irritating . |
| 4 | These notes , however , should be used sparingly as they soon pall on the ear . |
| 5 | A smoother paper is a ‘ must ’ and the crayons , too , should be used smoothly unless you want your faces to have complexions like sandpaper ! |
| 6 | Cadmium , one of the most toxic metals known to man , should be used only where no satisfactory alternative exists . |
| 7 | Fessey ( 1988 ) maintains that assertiveness techniques should be used only if a need requires expression or a right is about to be denied . |
| 8 | The article fails to emphasise the two most important tenets of safe prescribing of aminoglycosides — namely , that they should be used only if clinically justified and that they should be stopped as soon as the patient 's condition permits . |
| 9 | Embargoes should be used only if they are really necessary and a good deal of the embargoed material which reaches an editor 's desk does not really need this form of restriction . |
| 10 | Imprisonment is a harsh measure that should be used only when every other reasonable avenue has failed . |
| 11 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |
| 12 | Money , obtained too easily , could finance disaster , her grandfather had warned her ; it must be used wisely when the time came . |
| 13 | Hymnody might be used more if the production of most recordings were better and the words could be heard more clearly . |
| 14 | Now what saying with that , that 'll be used again when he is actually walking and does n't need a pram and the other one 's still toddelling |
| 15 | The resulting material could be used either as fuel or be biologically degraded by special engineered microorganisms to produce specific compounds for industry . |
| 16 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 17 | Technical jargon , in the terminology of the profession concerned , may be used only if the readership consists of members of that profession . |
| 18 | In future all organs recovered in Scotland will be used here except in cases where no-one is waiting for an operation , when the organs will be used elsewhere in Britain . |
| 19 | Publicly available data will be used rather than , at this stage , conducting interviews with business owners . |
| 20 | Whether the program will be used more than once with this class . |
| 21 | If you 've defined several different types of heading and paragraphs styles for use in a complex report , those styles can be used again when you next have to work on a document in a similar format . |
| 22 | Although they accept that the laws of war apply to the use of these weapons , their conclusion is that ‘ they can be used lawfully if civilians are not made the object of attack and if collateral injury to civilians is not disproportionate to the military advantage being sought ’ ( Builder and Graubard , 1982 , p. viii ) . |
| 23 | It must be very doubtful indeed whether , in a free society , property can be used otherwise than as those with title to it will allow . |
| 24 | Wirbel ( UK ) supply industrial cleaning machines , and have launched two workshop vacuum cleaners which can be used either as ordinary cleaners , or as remotely switched dust extractors . |
| 25 | This method can be used even if the first letter position is unknown , or if there is more than one letter unknown within a word , whatever the word length . |
| 26 | This method can be used even if N , the size of the population , is not known in advance . |
| 27 | They can be used even when the host computer/node/telecommunication lines are down . |
| 28 | As a consequence , oblige can be used even when the event denoted by the to infinitive has not yet been realized : ( 165 ) The law obliges everyone to pay his taxes . |
| 29 | Although these patterns can be used just as they are , they are also useful for experimenting with whilst you are learning to use the program . |
| 30 | Fortunately , we had past members with vision over the years , and from one of these we inherited a considerable legacy which will give us a firm basis for future work ; an investment which can be used frugally when the occasion demands . |