Example sentences of "were used for [art] " in BNC.

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1 At the beginning of the century , around 50 were used for a small number of functions .
2 They were used for a full ferreting season and instantly replaced the multiple-dig system .
3 Some of the earliest reinforcements were used for a counter-attack by Linsingen and Bohm-Ermolli on the northern edge of Brusilov 's offensive .
4 MSL were used for a variety of recruitment problems at various levels .
5 Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes .
6 In , all visual aids were used for a purpose .
7 For the band knitted for the club demonstration , six stitches were used for every buttonhole with ten stitches between each one .
8 Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument .
9 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 .
10 Double-deckers were used for the maximum impact , including the historic Dreadnought , in 1964 .
11 Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 .
12 Various woods were used for the chair frames : oak , walnut , beech , mulberry , chestnut , and sometimes alder and lime .
13 However , bistables based on individual transistors are sometimes used and valves were used for the purpose many years ago .
14 ‘ It tells us nothing in terms of lessons that can be learned , what sort of materials were used for the curtains , whether a sprinkler system was installed and whether they worked properly .
15 Cars 11 and 13 were used for the inspection which included braking tests on Anerley Hill .
16 Nos. 11 and 13 were used for the inspection of the Crystal Palace route and these cars took over the working of the Penge route as soon as the Corporation cars were withdrawn in June 1906 and in the same month , one of them was fitted with Raworth regenerative equipment for a demonstration on Anerley Hill for tramway engineers .
17 white and light green oxide were used for the dabs of pale green on the lining fabric , and a scumble of pure white was used to highlight the grey around the backs of the shoes .
18 Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis .
19 For example , a historian will be interested in finding out what is written on a sheet of medieval vellum , whereas an archaeologist will want to know what animal skin was used , how the vellum was made , and what pigments were used for the ink .
20 On archaeological sites , pits are frequently found that were used for the disposal of household refuse that would nowadays be put in a dustbin , collected by the municipal authorities , and taken to a communal rubbish tip .
21 On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level .
22 Only first conceptions as a result of artificial insemination were used for the analysis .
23 For the oligonucleotide binding-site probes 5% gels ( 29:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used while 4% gels ( 39:1 w/w acrylamide/ N , N' -methylene-bisacrylamide ) were used for the circularly permutated 143 bp restriction fragments .
24 Lambda vectors EMBL3 and EMBL4 ( Stratagene ) were used for the cloning of partial Sau 3AI and Eco RI digests of extranuclear DNA , enriched by CsCl centrifugation .
25 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 .
26 They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 .
27 EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical .
28 ( For computational reasons scaling factors were used for the Marshall and Bayes formulae to avoid underflow ) .
29 Changed circumstances began to alter the criteria which were used for the selection and appointment of heads .
30 The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) .
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