Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] used for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 2 | The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick . |
| 3 | She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback by breed and I resist the urgings of trendy ideologues who would rename these dogs which were used for lion hunting in East Africa . |
| 4 | Most amphitheatres were very large and all important towns possessed their own which were used for displays of all kinds but particularly for gladiatorial combat and exhibitions . |
| 5 | He avoided this problem by inventing and patenting in 1867 an entirely different type of multipolar machine , which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting . |
| 6 | One was used for city buses and the other for long-distance coaches . |
| 7 | ( The women also had tusks , so that I wondered if they were used for offence or defence . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 9 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 10 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 11 | They were used for stores he said , so there was no point in me looking . |
| 12 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 13 | It was used for meetings and conferences of magicians . |
| 14 | Traditionally it was used for ptisannes , a very bitter , still wine recommended by physicians as a laxative and diuretic . |
| 15 | It was used for investigations with positive Richardson number . |
| 16 | It was used for plays and mimes and seated about 5000 people . |
| 17 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 18 | It was used for industries from match making to house construction , from pit props to railway sleepers . |
| 19 | It was used for postcards , art reproductions and by photographic artists — like Peter Henry Emerson — for making fine , limited edition books and portfolios . |
| 20 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |