Example sentences of "[be] used [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computers are used increasingly for commercial purposes . |
| 2 | The examples used should be realistic and relevant to the pupils concerned Emphasis should also be given to the way in which percentages are used both for comparative purposes in many everyday situations and also as a numerical measure based on a 100-point scale of reference . |
| 3 | Minis are used primarily for on-line work , so they have to perform well in this respect . |
| 4 | Some of the poorest public houses have been closed and some are used now for non-licensed purposes . |
| 5 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 6 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results . |
| 7 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 8 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 9 | This is another form of discounting which has traditionally [ although not exclusively ] been used mainly for large contracts with payment terms greater than 180 days . |
| 10 | United States officials claimed that most of the nuclear-related technology that Iran was seeking to obtain from China , Brazil and elsewhere could be used equally for nuclear weapons or civilian uses . |
| 11 | Such a procedure could be used even for these words . |
| 12 | Can themes be enlarged upon and can they be used again for further work ? 18 What are the illustrations like ? |
| 13 | It contains a wide variety of stimulating material to be used both for intensive viewing and for extension activities that develop the language areas covered by the video . |
| 14 | Classrooms as such tended to disappear ; they were replaced by areas and bays which could be used both for informal workshops and for formal teaching . |
| 15 | This was possible because the topmost floor of the two-and-a-half storey building is entirely in the roof space , obtains all its daylight from a new roof-light and therefore can not be used easily for habitable accommodation . |
| 16 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 17 | The university has made clear that any funds raised from a sale will be used only for that purpose and not to clear its accumulated deficit , as originally intended . |
| 18 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 19 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 20 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 21 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 22 | With translucent or transparent rocks , the depth of field of low power zoom binocular microscopes can be used advantageously for three-dimensional study of included bioclasts and replacement fabrics in cherts , and orientation of fluid and crystal inclusions in evaporites . |
| 23 | There were no plans to take organs from primates but it was likely that certain species would be genetically engineered to be used specifically for human transplant . |
| 24 | For example , Goody and others have argued that the labelling of pre-colonial West African states as ‘ feudal ’ has obscured the all-important fact that the control of the ruling class did not operate through the control of land , and that therefore Marx 's ideas can not be used directly for these societies . |
| 25 | In less than two years the packs could be used routinely for all children in local authority care . |
| 26 | It provides a framework for modelling and understanding of the behaviour of complex social and business organisation and is being used widely for systematic problem-solving , organisational learning and business re-engineering in a variety of fields . |
| 27 | Currently , however , graduated assessment is being used more for formative purposes internal to a school where wrong decisions do not have such serious consequences . |
| 28 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 29 | The Diamond , the largest hall in the University with a seating capacity of over 1,500 , is a popular venue for major choral and orchestral works and has a splendid organ which is used regularly for major recitals . |
| 30 | The Diamond , the largest hall in the University with a seating capacity of over 1,500 , is a popular venue for major choral and orchestral works and has a splendid organ which is used regularly for major recitals . |