Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] used for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The living-room has a lived-in feel about it and the parlour , so immaculately tidy was so obviously only used for special occasions . |
| 2 | Most techniques so far used for increasing speed are now becoming inviable for the future , and new techniques must be developed . |
| 3 | The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice . |
| 4 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 5 | The seaplanes that do remain are small aircraft , not generally used for scheduled passenger services . |
| 6 | Such areas were not often used for arable , until later drainage operations ensured that water could be kept off the fields for most of the year . |
| 7 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 8 | Among the Odonata all the legs are adapted for seizing and retaining the prey and are hardly ever used for locomotory purposes , while in the Bombyliidae the slender legs are used for alighting rather than walking . |
| 9 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 10 | ( With nouns in the plural , such as students , the convention is simply to add an apostrophe , as in " the students ' books " ; with names already ending in " s " , apostrophe " s " is still generally added — so Keats 's , rather than Keats ' , though the apostrophe without an additional " s " is nearly always used for ancient classical names , as in Augustus ' . ) |
| 11 | ( Deeply anaesthetised animals , once finished with , are also frequently used for intramural practice purposes , in such institutions , prior to humane killing . ) |
| 12 | Fancy Patterns : This really does cover many stitch types and is intended for those patterns that are most often used for single colour work , where the design relies on texture rather than contrasting colours to form the pattern . |
| 13 | This coincided with their belief that the ordinary person wished to travel from and arrive at great palaces which , with their concourses , restaurants , shops , information centres , medical facilities , theatres , and ( later ) cinemas constituted virtually civic centres or forums , an impression heightened by the fact that they were often also used for political speeches . |
| 14 | When the potentialities of the tomato were first being explored in the nineteenth century , it was nearly as often used for sweet dishes as for sauces and soups . |
| 15 | Pitch fibre pipes are no longer used for new installations . |
| 16 | By the middle of the 18th century walnut was no longer used for fashionable furniture but continued in favour in the provinces where , late in the century , pieces were made in the style of 50 years earlier . |
| 17 | It says more than 80% of Unix workstations shipped last year went to sectors where they are most commonly used for technical applications . |
| 18 | For instance , in a study of 25 retinopathy patients — the marker most commonly used for microvascular disease — platelets exhibited enhanced platelet aggregation to the agonists adrenaline and arachidonic acid but not to ADP ( Creter et al , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | There are two chief reasons for this : first , the control and wealth of the Hanseatic League , and second , the paucity of building materials which caused brick to be most commonly used for Gothic buildings . |
| 20 | Other drugs , such as azathioprine were soon shown to be even more effective ; and azathioprine was very quickly used for human kidney transplants , and produced a dramatic improvement in their survival . |