Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] use for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 2 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 3 | This provided ‘ a check from the buyers mortgagees point of view , that the money has been used for the purchase ’ . |
| 4 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 5 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 6 | The transhepatic puncture of the gall bladder has been used for cholecystography and cholangiography , for aspiration of bile or pus for culture in suspected cases of acute cholecystitis or empyema , and for biopsy of lesions within the gall bladder . |
| 7 | More recently , this dock has been used for the importation of Fiat cars ( it used to be used for the export of British cars ) . |
| 8 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 9 | What denomination of coinage would this weight have been used for during James I reign ? |
| 10 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 11 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 12 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 13 | Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons . |
| 14 | In recent years , the SeHCAT test has been used for the determination of bile acid malabsorption . |
| 15 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 16 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 17 | Wood cutting has been a trade in and around Halling for centuries , in early days wood having been used for fuel . |
| 18 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 19 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 20 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 21 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 22 | Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering . |
| 23 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 24 | 3.5 millimetre jack sockets have been used for JK1 and JK2 , but you can obviously use an alternative such as phono sockets or standard jacks , if these will fit in better with other equipment . |
| 25 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 26 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 27 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 28 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 29 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 30 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |