Example sentences of "[prep] [be] used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disease is seen most frequently in breeding and rearing establishments where outdoor pens , such as are used for breeding pheasants , are in use . |
| 2 | Referring to their work observing a house which was suspected of being used for prostitution , the policemen remarked that it was ‘ a wee tuppence ha'penny job ’ . |
| 3 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 4 | At the core of the treaty was a detailed procedure for " challenge inspections " , under which at 108 hours ' notice international inspectors could investigate sites suspected of being used for making or storing chemical weapons . |
| 5 | Dishwashing etc. machines : Despite being used for a variety of functions , including cleaning crockery , bottles , trays , crates and numerous other items , these machines all operate on the same general principle . |
| 6 | The Association feared that if floodlighting caught on , clubs would be drawn into spending too much money , and it banned the new lights at Highbury from being used for official matches . |
| 7 | The international safeguards which apparently prevent civil nuclear material from being used for arms fuelling can be side stepped by nuclear powers like the UK ‘ for national security reasons ’ Priddle admitted . |
| 8 | In his veto message to Congress Bush reiterated his opposition to abortion and stated that the veto was " important in order to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for research that many Americans find morally repugnant " , but also because of the bill 's " potential for promoting and legitimatizing abortion " . |
| 9 | OMIT which prevents the volume from being used for formatting . |
| 10 | Standard bobbins can not be used for E cores , since all three legs have to be used for the isolated topology . |
| 11 | Red tile set on edge was to be used for the centrepiece , Portland stone for the surround , brown pebble paving for an infill , blue and white pebbles to make a star design , white marble for the path through the pergola . |
| 12 | Eventually , in conjunction with television , it could allow the telephone to be used for ‘ tele-shopping ’ , or for selecting a film from huge databases which could be the electronic video stores of the future . |
| 13 | Robert Darby , 25 , a youth leader known as The General , and Leslie Thomas , 26 , were yesterday convicted at Southwark Crown Court of permitting premises to be used for the control and supply of drugs in relation to acid house parties . |
| 14 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 15 | The buildings continued to be used for this purpose until the mid-1980s when an enterprising manager of a local farm realised that something could be done to salvage the structures for a more profitable use . |
| 16 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 17 | Thomas , of east London , plotted to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 18 | Thomas , of the Isle of Dogs , east London , was found guilty of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 19 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 20 | From saying that a thing ought to belong to a man , that it ought to be used for his benefit , you come to saying that it actually is his , ‘ in equity ’ or ‘ in conscience ’ . |
| 21 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 22 | Chico , whose street paintings were first used by the denim company in the ‘ Crosstown Traffic ’ advert , has now customised a number of their jackets with scenes of urban America to be used for promotional purposes and to raise money for charity . |
| 23 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 24 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 25 | Churchill 's ‘ Mulberrys ’ , the artificial harbours to be used for the invasion , were constructed on the Gareloch , and capital ships by the dozen , aircraft carriers , cruisers , battleships and destroyers — all lay off the coasts of the west or sailed into the Clyde . |
| 26 | The scheme is designed for the younger ( less than 36 years old ) organic chemist , the funds to be used for the purchase of equipment , books and consumables , technical assistance , professional travel or any other activity directly related to the research being undertaken . |
| 27 | In some months fertiliser would probably be banned , and a range of optional measures such as training , use of catch crops and set-aside of land ( for example to be used for forestry or nature conservation ) would follow . |
| 28 | people to allow the first brick bridge north of the Foxton Junction to be used for cross over in towing . |
| 29 | In fact this is not an attempt to reverse pollution , but something more complicated : to create a plan that would enable Lake Ichkeul , in Tunisia , to be used for several different purposes simultaneously . |
| 30 | The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk . |