Example sentences of "which were use for " in BNC.

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1 There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups .
2 The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production .
3 She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback by breed and I resist the urgings of trendy ideologues who would rename these dogs which were used for lion hunting in East Africa .
4 Brabin J. commented on the site chosen for the defendant 's premises which were used for fat rendering , an offensive trade .
5 It was navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons , mostly keels which were used for transporting coal and lime to Leven and took away corn and various commodities made in the village such as candles , rope , and a certain type of brick .
6 Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service .
7 Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World .
8 But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries .
9 The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick .
10 Changed circumstances began to alter the criteria which were used for the selection and appointment of heads .
11 Most amphitheatres were very large and all important towns possessed their own which were used for displays of all kinds but particularly for gladiatorial combat and exhibitions .
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