Example sentences of "not [be] use [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your card can not be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from Cashline machines . |
| 2 | If resources are to be used to increase pensions , should they not be used to target those in greatest need , rather than spreading across the board and benefiting both rich and poor ? |
| 3 | Locke finds the theory quite unworkable ; for example , it can not be used to justify any actual political authority , since it is impossible to show of any particular monarch that he is a genuine heir to Adam 's original authority . |
| 4 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 5 | The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled . |