Example sentences of "[noun pl] be used for this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) .
2 Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) .
3 Some of the retirement relief concepts are used for this relief .
4 Two arguments are used for this purpose .
5 Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate .
6 As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose .
7 A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion .
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