Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] be used " in BNC.

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1 It was a shame , really , that she should be used as a butt , yet she did n't seem to mind ; in fact , he thought she enjoyed it .
2 Her last wish was that she should be used for transplants .
3 And erm they were determined that we should all work near as proficient in milking to go and take over , so we had to learn to hand milk , to use three different types of milking machines and to do all the necessary sterilizing and everything else , so that we could be used straight away when we got to the farm .
4 Senior Soviet officials stressed that the patrols were an emergency measure decided in the face of the soaring crime rate , and denied that they would be used for political ends or would violate human rights .
5 Edward II had tried to suppress tournaments , because he feared that they might be used as occasions to form political conspiracies against the court , but his son now encouraged them as occasions when king and nobles could together demonstrate their knightly prowess .
6 Of course , price subsidies are used for many other purposes ; for example , in chapter 3 it was noted that they might be used to tackle the problem of an externality .
7 The application was defended on the basis that discovery would be contrary to public interest as the reports were highly confidential and the fact that they might be used in litigation would inhibit the doctors preparing such reports in the future .
8 In order to do this , you will need to familiarise yourself with the sound ( quality ) and function ( number ) of the intervals in any given chord and its successor , so that they may be used interchangeably .
9 The use of readmission rates as an indicator of outcome rests upon the assumption that they may be used as a proxy for morbidity resultant from poor clinical care .
10 Through an examination of the files down to 1551 , it is intended to produce a more detailed guide to the contents of these records than is available at present , so that they may be used more easily and become better known .
11 The research aims to develop techniques of obtaining information about the landscape using remote sensing systems and to present and display these data so that they may be used more effectively for the management of landscape resources .
12 Their function is not known , but it is suggested that they may be used to pin a patch of mucosa in position during feeding , or that they may prevent the entry of foreign matter into the buccal capsule when the worm has detached from the mucosa .
13 Those programs that filter or rearrange the data write output files in the same format as the inputs , so that they may be used as inputs to the other applications .
14 The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking .
15 There are real fears that they could be used to depress wages , that team work could be jeopardised and that women and staff from ethnic minorities will be further disadvantaged .
16 As reconditioned they had new B.T-H. 509c motors and line switch attachments fitted to the controllers so that they could be used interlocked with air brakes .
17 In April and June 1927 , Nos. 36 and 38 were fitted with Westinghouse air brakes acting on the wheels and on the track so that they could be used on the Thornton Heath route and run in conjunction with the bogie cars that were being similarly equipped .
18 The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials .
19 Brennan felt that they could be used to enable teachers to individualise and extend the curriculum and suggested the following activities :
20 In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently .
21 More changes in 1981 were designed to facilitate further the procedures so that they could be used by the general public , making arbitration the normal method of settling disputes where the amount of the claim was less than £500 , amending the ‘ no costs ’ rule and amending the terms of reference for the conduct of arbitration .
22 Does n't it occur to you that they could be used again ?
23 Some Western governments , including the USA and UK , had blocked the issue of bonds , claiming that they could be used to launder drugs money .
24 Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia .
25 Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ?
26 We advise that they should be used damp , but not wet , so that the mortar sticks well .
27 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 .
28 The strong flavours of culinary herbs ensure that they should be used in small quantities , but there is no need to go to the other extreme and be timid with them .
29 During my term , I want to make every effort to ensure that they will be used .
30 I understand that th as we are funding this that they will be used on county roads rather than on trunk roads ?
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