Example sentences of "[was/were] used [verb] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A. kollari first appeared in Britain in the 1830s , after galls were brought from the Middle East to Devon , where they were used to make dyes for the woollen cloth industry . |
2 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
3 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |
4 | The money was used to buy equipment for the garden . |
5 | For about six hundred years the port , ( or the earlier , less grand version , known as the Laghetto di Sant' Eustorgio , the little lake of Sant' Eustorgio , in roughly the same spot ) was used to deliver marble for the Duomo from the Visconti quarries at Candoglia in the Val d'Ossola which ends at Lake Maggiore . |
6 | The remaining space afforded by the removal of the existing kitchen was used to provide areas for a Computer Room , two Business Studies Areas , Typing and Office Procedures . |
7 | Serious composers , such as John Cage , were more influenced by Eastern philosophy which was used to provide authority for the insertion of chance events in the performance of music . |
8 | The mill was originally run as part of the adjacent farm and , not surprisingly , was used to provide power for a number of other uses . |
9 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |