Example sentences of "be use [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exclusive Or can be used to invert a specified bit of a word , as shown in Figure 2.12 ( c' ) . |
| 2 | But the water which drowns can also be used to float a watertight basket ( the same Hebrew word as Noah 's " ark " ) — and Moses ' life is saved by his mother 's resourceful action . |
| 3 | Her will has directed that the income from Patrick 's work , estimated at £10,000 a year , should be used to support a middle-aged poet , to be chosen by the estate 's trustees . |
| 4 | Thus a HIGH OR EQUAL comparison condition will be used to search a blocked file looking for a given record . |
| 5 | The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme , including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business . |
| 6 | The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme , including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business . |
| 7 | The fear , following fierce controversy over political interference in England 's separate curriculum by ministers south of the Border , is that the document will also be used to put a political stamp on the Scottish scheme . |
| 8 | ‘ Essentially it 's an electronic brochure , but it could be used to promote a branded product , such as a hotel consortium or Agatha Christie weekends . |
| 9 | In words stress can be used to mark a lexical difference ( i.e. a difference in meaning ) between otherwise identical words . |
| 10 | Stress can also be used to mark a grammatical difference . |
| 11 | Each compartment can be used to hold a particular type of component over a limited range of values . |
| 12 | A gas which is usually found in car exhaust fumes might soon be used to cure a certain type of male impotence . |
| 13 | Fan-assisted flue ducts allow some fires to be used up to 4m away from the outside wall — they are often skirting flues , which run along a skirting board to an outside wall , and an be used to complement a limited range of conventional fires . |
| 14 | Because stress is not available in written language , intricate syntactic devices have to be used to perform a similar function . |
| 15 | Certainly verticality can be used to transform a small and uninteresting garden . |
| 16 | It has been suggested ( Walker , 1982 , p. 11 ) that the popularity of ‘ community care , owes much to its flexibility and adaptability — the term can be used to describe a wide range of institutions and services ( and , critics would add , the lack of them too ) . |
| 17 | Time-lines can be used to describe a chronological narrative of events or to help you to analyse the inter-relationships ' of different factors , events and places . |
| 18 | This operation can be used to set a specified bit of a word to one , as shown in Figure 2.12 ( b' ) . |
| 19 | When applicable , Taylor 's hypothesis ( Section 19.4 ) can be used to derive a spatial spectrum from an observed time spectrum . |
| 20 | Projects can be used to assess a wide range of cognitive and practical competences . |
| 21 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
| 22 | For example 611.5 can be used to represent a new subject which has links with the subjects at both 611 and 612 ; however , unless the new subject is a subdivision of 611 , to place it at 611.5 will impair the expressiveness of the notation . |
| 23 | The implication seems to be that mathematics ( which can be used to give a perfect articulation of the cave/particle idea ) is intrinsically inferior as a mode of rational discourse to ordinary language ( which can not quite cope ) . |
| 24 | First , because the 20pc increase in incomes has been widely reported and may be used to give a misleading impression . |
| 25 | Both leaves and seeds may be used to give a mild , slightly sweet flavour to foods . |
| 26 | It can be used to define a typical time scale of the turbulence . |
| 27 | There was , therefore , a legitimate argument that could be used to spawn a common market , membership of which would be open to any willing OEEC signatory . |
| 28 | What is more , a technical standard for representing letters which uses Bézier curves does not depend on any characteristic of the machine which is doing the printing : the same set of curves can be used to drive a professional typesetter or a cheap laser-printer ( though most fonts have to include ‘ hints ’ which help coarser machines interpret the curves ) . |
| 29 | US conservatives have begun arguing openly that if the Sandinista Government tries to remain in power after the scheduled election in February , the invasion of Panama could be used to justify a new wave of military intervention . |
| 30 | Apart from the usual output media of the screen and the printer the micro could be used to control a wide variety of external devices from a simple bell through a slide or film projector to various forms of apparatus or even robots . |