Example sentences of "[noun sg] used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 2 | And also the marks of the little side axe used for trimming off the sides . |
| 3 | Ultrasoft nylon : A very lightweight and super-soft nylon fabric used for Mountain Equipment 's top range of sleeping bags . |
| 4 | For instance , dining chairs could have seat cushions in the same fabric used for the sofa . |
| 5 | She particularly disliked marjoram — an essence used for grief , said to be an anti-aphrodisiac . |
| 6 | They automate the handling of data , information , expertise and reasoning used for the decision-making and decision-taking stages of the problem solving process . |
| 7 | I have two marine tanks and in the past I have experienced problems with dead spots in my undergravel filtration due to the amount of tufa rock used for decor . |
| 8 | Some shortages were inevitable ; among them was a dearth of ‘ brylcream ’ ( a term used for any pomade ) used chiefly by women to make their hair glisten . |
| 9 | The term used for such restraint is Verkehrsberuhigung , literally meaning traffic-calming ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Materials unaccounted for ’ is the specific term used for any kind of discrepancy between the book inventory and the actual inventory . ’ |
| 11 | And in the Vulgate , as in certain more modern translations , the term used for those who come to arrest Jesus is correctly translated — and considerably more precise . |
| 12 | ‘ Les fuckings ’ was a generic term used for all English speakers as it was the word the staff heard us use the most . |
| 13 | Term used for a multiple prayer rug — one with two or more separate prayer fields — which is also referred to as a family prayer rug ( p. 86 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Quality assurance ’ is the term used for a programme of activities instigated by service managers to ensure that certain standards are met . |
| 15 | This is a contagious infection caused by mites burrowing under the skin ( mange is a term used for any condition caused by mites which causes itching and results in a mammal losing its fur ) . |
| 16 | The specific term used for such an exercise is ‘ one-step semi-free sparring ’ . |
| 17 | The term used for this is polydispersity and it is described by parameters derived from the statistics of the method used for molecular weight determination . |
| 18 | The technical term used for this cash limit is the external finance limit ( EFL ) , reflecting its rather different status . |
| 19 | Non-recourse lending is the term used for a loan where the project itself rather than the company 's assets as a whole is the security offered to the lender . |
| 20 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 21 | Volts erm it 's a term used for electricity , |
| 22 | He says that this was a cell used for patients in the early days of the hospital . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course not , ’ said Rain , and bit back information about the typewriter used for the packages and a death threat . |
| 24 | At the first , a building a short distance outside the town contained a furnace used for reworking coloured cullet . |
| 25 | The tension used for weaving should usually be about one number looser than that which is normally used for stocking stitch . |
| 26 | The arbitrage profit is independent of the price at which the shares are sold ( bought ) , provided this is the delivery price of the future used for the arbitrage . |
| 27 | the accounting policy and , if different , the funding policy whether the pension cost and provision ( or asset ) are assessed in accordance with the advice of a professionally qualified actuary and , if so , the date of the most recent actuarial valuation or later formal review used for this purpose . |
| 28 | a short horizontal rule used for punctuation . |
| 29 | Prentice Hall 's Illustrated Dictionary of Computing ( Nader 1992 ) irreversibly severs the material link by noting that ‘ software is independent of the carrier used for transport ’ . |
| 30 | Methylene chloride is a powerful chemical used for the removal of heavy grease deposits and as a paint stripper . |