Example sentences of "be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another name for an eruption is a ‘ burst ’ ( but this is sometimes used to mean the process generating an eruption rather than the eruption itself ; conversely , it has been used to mean a sequence of an eruption plus an inrush ) . |
| 32 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | A natural material that has this type of structure is coral , which has been used to produce a range of implant ceramics . |
| 35 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
| 36 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 37 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 38 | Lawyers and sections of the media have been concerned that the plastic sheet prevents electronic document analysis ( Esda ) , which has been used to correct a number of miscarriages of justice — including wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six , Guildford Four and Tottenham Three . |
| 39 | A duplicate key is thought to have been used to enter a bungalow in Daytona Drive , Northop Hall , where property worth almost £4,000 was stolen . |
| 40 | SUMMARY : Vitrinite reflectance data for the Carboniferous in 68 Southern North Sea Basin wells have been used to determine a maturity-depth relationship for the basin and to provide an estimate of basement inversion . |
| 41 | Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions . |
| 42 | Skills learned in decommissioning AEA 's own facilities , at sites from Winfrith in Dorset to Dounreay in Scotland , have already been used to assist a number of pharmaceutical organisation in planning and implementing their own decommissioning operations . |
| 43 | Can any bricks be used to lay a path ? |
| 44 | The Streetlink cash will be used to employ a youth worker , who will strive to ensure young people do not become either the victims or the perpetrators of crime . |
| 45 | And high frequencies must be used to carry a number of TV channels because each is 8 MHz wide and they are ‘ stacked ’ one over the other in the frequency spectrum . |
| 46 | A magic bridle may be used to tame a kelpie temporarily , though this will engender great rage in the creature . |
| 47 | A system of this type could be used to explore a mechanism design and allow its kinematic integrity to be established whilst the local space relationships are being monitored . |
| 48 | At civil law reasonable force may be used to evict a trespasser . |
| 49 | Thus , mundane objects such as clam-shell axes and fish hooks may be used to objectify a concept of self-development and self-created change which may potentially be a powerful force in the rise of post-colonial states ( Miller 1980 ) . |
| 50 | Similarly , Branchplan can be used to generate a plot of customer distribution around a particular store location . |
| 51 | If word recognition is completed before the context can be used to generate a prediction , then the context would not be expected to have much of an effect upon the word , and more experienced readers do appear to be less influenced by context . |
| 52 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 53 | This award will be used to fund a research visit to the USA in order to obtain archival data about the effects of this policy , to talk with public officials about the achievements and failings of their relocation programmes ; and to investigate at local level the similarities and differences between the American and British contexts . |
| 54 | In Chapter 4 it was demonstrated that spot and debt can be used to replicate a futures contract . |
| 55 | Epidemiologist Gerardo Heiss , and other researchers from the University of North Carolina , found that current levels of cholesterol can be used to predict a person 's mortality rate for the next 10 years . |
| 56 | Mr Jones has criticised Mr Mandelson for announcing his candidature in a newspaper article and said that the spirit of the party 's selection code , which says the media should not be used to promote a candidate , may have been broken . |
| 57 | Before the expression ‘ public law ’ can be used to deny a subject a right of action in the court of his choice it must be related to a positive prescription of law , by statute or by statutory rule . |
| 58 | Thus formative evaluation provides information which can be used to improve a course , whereas summative evaluation can be used to provide information about the overall worth of a given course , to help in the decision as to whether or not the course should be continued . |
| 59 | Tomorrow , the video will be used to persuade a group of councillors that hunting should be banned on council-owned land . |
| 60 | This is the dichotomy that must be used to form a framework within which any curriculum change must be placed . |