Example sentences of "[be] use for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 2 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 3 | Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection . |
| 4 | Of course , price subsidies are used for many other purposes ; for example , in chapter 3 it was noted that they might be used to tackle the problem of an externality . |
| 5 | Different criteria are used for each table , but a common minimum market value of £100million is used to exclude the smallest companies where small changes can produce disporportionate results . |
| 6 | However , they sample the pupils in a more selective way , because not all pupils take the same kinds of public examinations , and different criteria are used for each kind . |
| 7 | This is an important point , since in many libraries selection is part of an integrated approach which also includes acquisition and cataloguing , and the national bibliography 's machine-readable records are used for all these functions ( although the actual selection process is usually based upon the print version ) . |
| 8 | They are used for all general-purpose planing work where an absolutely true and flat finish is not essential . |
| 9 | Signed Danish is a gestural/auditive language in which Danish is spoken at the same time as signs from the Sign Language are used for all words which have a concept , and as far as possible grammatical rules [ are used ] from sign language . |
| 10 | Annual reports and other donor information literature clearly state that blood donations are used for all patients in NHS and other hospitals . |
| 11 | Dublin 's brand of rock music merges at times with traditional music , and the studios are used for both styles . |
| 12 | In some traditions worship songs are used for some five or ten minutes before a service to prepare people for worship , often followed by silence . |
| 13 | A mixture of clay and graphite are used for these pencils which produces an extremely soft dense black mark which can be blended further with water . |
| 14 | Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate . |
| 15 | Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | It is easy to see why it is the more unusual types of artefact that are used for this type of research . |
| 17 | Two arguments are used for this purpose . |
| 18 | When known to be present , iron and manganese can be easily removed from water , and there are several processes that are used for this purpose . |
| 19 | Some of the retirement relief concepts are used for this relief . |
| 20 | Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent . |
| 21 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 22 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 26 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |