Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] used for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benzoic acid is often used for this purpose . |
| 2 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 3 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 4 | A spotlight is often used for this , as it concentrates the beam and allows it to be aimed very precisely at areas such as shoulders and the tops of heads . |
| 5 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |