Example sentences of "been used for [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The definition of which places have previously been used for exchange activities will again lead to the identification of higher status sites .
2 What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ?
3 Several Y-specific genes have been used for sex typing .
4 Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport .
5 Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers .
6 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 .
7 Th the the other thing erm reference that this other manager has not at no occa on no occasion has that car been used for company use .
8 That company company car has never been used for company use .
9 The fact of the child 's puzzlement is due to his being a victim of the way in which the dogmatic religions of the world have been used for child indoctrination , resulting in the perpetuation of the inherent superstitions and subsequent evils that have shamed religion throughout civilised time .
10 These factors may account for the fact that the blackboard metaphor has not usually been used for anaphor resolvers , whose control structures are very often relatively simple , with different knowledge sources brought to bear in something like a predetermined order .
11 It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle .
12 When the new owners who proposed to convert the barn first saw it in 1978 , the whole structure had been used for stabling horses , and accordingly , brick partitions had been erected to form stalls inside .
13 Banks rather than state grants have been used for investment capital as part of a strategy to protect that autonomy .
14 Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice .
15 BELOW : The site was originally quite complex and has been used for cloth manufacture , flock and shoddy production .
16 Much of the land has been used for squatter settlements for refugees from the fighting in Mozambique , while other parts have been cleared for banana plantations .
17 And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do .
18 Only about one quarter claim that it has been used for INSET purposes in their schools and even fewer claim that its use has resulted in any changes .
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