Example sentences of "be used for several " in BNC.

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1 Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent .
2 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
3 In fact this is not an attempt to reverse pollution , but something more complicated : to create a plan that would enable Lake Ichkeul , in Tunisia , to be used for several different purposes simultaneously .
4 Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades .
5 Any one system may be used for several different purposes but the most common use was for outreach work .
6 Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture .
7 The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information .
8 This post was used for several weeks before the men were recalled , despite their plans for a raid ‘ fixing charges to the noses of planes ’ .
9 It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them .
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