Example sentences of "[be] use [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance .
2 He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) .
3 And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know .
4 The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the input page .
5 The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the current page .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
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 The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above .
10 The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation
11 It is effective when read aloud , where the voice can be used to carry over the syntax and sense .
12 Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma .
13 Photographs , videos and models will be used to put across the feeling of the Cumbrian farming landscape , including a section devoted to the Trust 's work , and the NHK will be making a donation of £50,000 towards the Trust 's Lake District Appeal .
14 For large values of N i , Stirling 's approximation can be used to deal with the factorials viz. In , and equation ( 8.3 ) becomes which on dividing by N o gives If , the mole fraction of component i , then
15 If it does happen different officers will be used to deal with the two groups , so the cross-fertilisation theory does n't hold water .
16 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 .
17 The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat .
18 The term gender will be used to refer to the social construction of sexual differences .
19 One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals .
20 Also we have which can be used to replace in the previous equation : Multiplying both sides by sin 3 i gives which is a quantity known to astronomers as the mass function .
21 There is a pleasant dining room for house guests which can also be used to relax during the evening , plus a cosy lounge and TV room .
22 Precisely what sort of cable will be used depends on the network architecture you 've chosen .
23 If the Offline Operator does not want to enter information , or has finished entering information but does not want to action it , the TAB and BACKSPACE keys can be used to move to the next or previous field requiring an entry .
24 The TAB and BACKSPACE keys can be used to move between the fields .
25 The TAB and BS keys can be used to move between the fields .
26 Figures 9.2 and 9.3 demonstrate how the two approaches to decision making can be used to move from the current state of affairs to a desired situation .
27 " Keeper of the Keys " can also be used to explore ritual ; it can be used to teach about the nature of dramatic tension and dramatic structure ( see Chapter 4 ) .
28 The set contains two short videos , one audio cassette , five manuals , several leaflets and posters , some or all of which can be used according to the needs of different groups .
29 This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany .
30 A single SSR can then be used to close off the original SPR when the originator is satisfied that all useful information has been extracted and transferred onto the new SPRs .
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