Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] use for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
2 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
3 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
4 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
5 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
6 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |