Example sentences of "used for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without adequate drainage , lowland pasture can be used for little else . |
| 2 | Similarly , areas of meadow can be used for little else without massive investment in drainage , and hay crops and rich pasture seem to have been too valuable to consider using this land in any other way . |
| 3 | Apart from certain legal hands , the most difficult he will need to master will be the so-called ‘ secretary ’ hand used for much of the Tudor period . |
| 4 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 5 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
| 6 | In the wake of major advances in medicine and technology it 's interesting to hear that not only is acupuncture still used for many human conditions , but there is also an increasing trend toward using acupuncture for pets . |
| 7 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 8 | These should include mild and hot peppers ( the jalapeño pepper is not for the faint hearted ) , and tomato sauces for tacos which can also be used for many other dishes . |
| 9 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 10 | Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection . |
| 11 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 12 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 13 | Social research is happily so varied in its subjects of study that a wide variety of techniques may be used for many research projects . |
| 14 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 15 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 16 | The land is used for many purposes : for housing , factories , rail and roadways , airports , water reservoirs , recreation , amenity , forestry and farming . |
| 17 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 18 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
| 19 | Skipping ropes are popular and can be used for many activities as well as skipping , jumping over and crawling under . |
| 20 | Food , in our society , is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger . |
| 21 | The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies . |
| 22 | Some of these arguments have called into question methods of accounting for capital instruments used for many years which had previously appeared uncontroversial . |
| 23 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 24 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 25 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 26 | The solution has been found by submitting the agreement to English law , widely thought to be the fairest and most flexible , and therefore used for many international transactions . |
| 27 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 28 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 29 | The keys used for many data files are not suited to any practical self-indexing transformation , so other methods of establishing a relationship between record keys and storage addresses have been developed . |
| 30 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |