Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [be] used [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An acid glycine extract ELISA technique was used to test for H pylori as described by Goodwin et al , and was performed in 1991 on serum samples , which had been taken in 1969 , 1978 , and November/December 1990 . |
| 2 | The direct standardisation method was used to correct for inadvertent imbalance of risk factors between the three treatment groups ( see below ) . |
| 3 | The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information . |
| 4 | RNase protection analysis using a probe spanning the 25kDa/50kDa junction was used to search for smooth muscle myosin heterogeneity in the S1 subfragment . |
| 5 | Spearman 's rank correlation was used to look for any relation between oxygen saturation and incidence of arrhythmias . |
| 6 | The Doppler shift was used to compensate for the gravitational spectral shift of photons travelling along the tower . |