Example sentences of "[modal v] be used against [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the committee was expected primarily to identify people suspected of having collaborated with the Iraqi army , opposition sources quoted in the Guardian of Feb. 13 expressed the fear that such a committee might be used against dissidents , adding that , if this were so , such a body " would be very dangerous if there were no parliament " . |
| 2 | Of course paying for childcare could be used against women — the most obvious danger being that it could be made selective ( on class or race lines ) or conditional upon certain standards of maternal behaviour — but there are risks in any advance . |
| 3 | On both occasions the Soviet Union made up for the extreme weakness of its client but , by providing the personnel to operate missile sites , it was consciously limiting the ways in which these missiles could be used against Israel . |
| 4 | Gorbachev , both at Geneva and in his subsequent address to the Supreme Soviet , argued that SDI was in effect a new type of armament , a ‘ space-strike weapon ’ which could be used against missiles , satellites or land-based targets . |
| 5 | His point is not that the other two legs are invulnerable , but that far too much of America 's political energy has gone into discussing ICBMs and far too little into submarines , cruise missiles , stealth bombers ( which could be used against targets other than the Soviet Union ) and especially command and control centres . |
| 6 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it can not be doubted that indiscriminate bombing of cities helped to prepare the ( a ) moral climate in which the atomic bomb could be used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 8 | US courts which had collected evidence against drug traffickers would now be able to pass this on to Colombian courts where it could be used against suspects standing trial . |
| 9 | 120 British aircraft may be used against Iraq |
| 10 | Excess relief may be used against CGT in the same tax year . |
| 11 | Northwestern Bell Telephone Co et al , where it was held that proof of an organised crime nexus is not required for RICO to be invoked , it is now clear that the draconian penalties applicable under RICO may be used against insider dealers . |
| 12 | This is a , a it 's the same as can be used against weevil fly . |
| 13 | And another advantage of these mechanisms of defence is they apply to other inputs to the ego , not just those from the er from the unconscious or from the organism itself but from the outside , for example the denial is a defence mechanism that can be used against reality and is used by psychotics to great and often disastrous effect . |