Example sentences of "to use [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's another kind of acoustic string we make , one my father used to make under the D'Arco name before he sold the company to Martin , and that 's a semi-polished acoustic string , halfway between a round-wound and a flat-wound ; a lot of the old archtop guitar players used to use them for recording . |
| 2 | The ‘ aim should be to use them for purposes compatible with the Green Belt as set out in Circular 14/84 which can include institutional uses ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Not if you 're going to use it for lies , propaganda and distortion , ’ said the Press Liaison Officer . |
| 4 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 5 | Cells work to keep calcium at vanishingly low internal concentrations , in order to use it for signalling . |
| 6 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 7 | And that means that you do not have a table surrounded by chairs — except , of course , when you are actually going to use it for eating . |
| 8 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 9 | Literature is not a book on how to study literature , but on how to use it for language practice . |
| 10 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 11 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |