Example sentences of "[noun] be used [prep] [adj] purpose " 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 | The key point is that if the knives are used for one purpose and do not fall into the category of domestic cutlery there is a case for a ban . |
| 3 | A sign in a Zurich hotel says : ‘ Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom , it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose . ’ |
| 4 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 5 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 8 | Reacting to Ms Ashworth 's claim , BT said it would be appalled if those machines were used for that purpose . |
| 9 | Two arguments are used for this purpose . |
| 10 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 11 | Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate . |
| 12 | Masham can never supply the whole S&N estate so extra capacity in Newcastle is used for this purpose . |
| 13 | About what proportion of the National Park is used for each purpose ? |
| 14 | As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose . |
| 15 | A Beckmann thermometer is used for this purpose . |
| 16 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 17 | An equicaloric glucose solution is used for this purpose . |
| 18 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 19 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |