Example sentences of "was use for [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the in vitro experiments , a Student 's t test for paired data was used for comparing changes before and after incubation with L-NAME . |
| 2 | The miller 's house , with a smaller water wheel , was used for threshing clover in the 16th century . |
| 3 | The existing building dates from the 1740s when it became an oil mill for linseed In 1808 it was bought by the British Copper Company and was used for producing copper sheets In 1860 it was purchased by the East London Water Company and rebuilt as a pumping station . |
| 4 | Inside , little remains to show that this chamber was used for summoning Elementals . |
| 5 | Prominent among these buildings is the hop-kiln , which was used for drying hops ( the main use for which is in beer , although they are also incorporated in other delicacies ) before they could be despatched to market . |
| 6 | Years ago , before it was made illegal , pure nicotine was used for fumigating glasshouses . |
| 7 | In the shallow sloping terraced garden , with drystone retaining walls , there is a sunken circular garden with a seat all round it and a slate floor which was used for having tea in the shade on boiling afternoons . |
| 8 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 9 | Quarry holes where stone was used for surfacing Leith Walk at the end of the 19th century ; |
| 10 | An improved patent band re-sawing machine , with combined vertical and horizontal feed , was used for cutting deals , battens , etc , into boards , after which they were passed through a high speed four-cutter moulding and seaming machine . |
| 11 | It is thought to have seen no operational service during World War Two , but was used for spinning trials at Farnborough . |
| 12 | A mixture of stale tea leaves and vinegar was used for washing floors and paintwork . |
| 13 | A coding system was used for studying attributions , in which the rater was blind to outcome status , and rated the attributions from written material spontaneously generated by pupils after the disaster . |
| 14 | The Marshall Islands comprised 34 islands and 870 reefs and had a population of 43,355 ; between 1946 and 1962 the territory was used for testing US atomic and hydrogen bombs , involving the resettlement of the inhabitants of Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls . |
| 15 | It was used for making vessels based on bronze forms as well as for ornaments . |
| 16 | A character with Herb Lore , Manufacture Drugs or Prepare Poisons will be able to see that this place was used for preparing poisons . |
| 17 | It was used for keeping accounts and also for dedicatory inscriptions . |
| 18 | Thin layer chromatography was used for estimating L-rhamnose . |