Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] used for this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A sign in a Zurich hotel says : ‘ Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom , it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose . ’
2 The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire .
3 In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters .
4 A Beckmann thermometer is used for this purpose .
5 The program CASP was used for this purpose .
6 Styling wax and extra strong mousse were used for this look .
7 Special stationery is used for this index , and no subject indexing has been undertaken — retrieval is impossible under anything other than first author .
8 An equicaloric glucose solution is used for this purpose .
9 A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year .
10 The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action .
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