Example sentences of "[was/were] used for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 2 | The report also mentioned contamination problems during the manufacture of the anti-allergic eye product Opticrom and suggests that ‘ beer kegs ’ were used for storage during the manufacture of Imferon , an injectable iron . |
| 3 | The ground-floor rooms were used for storage , cooking and other work : from them stairways rose to the living and sleeping quarters upstairs . |
| 4 | These arches were used for storage . |
| 5 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 6 | Locomotives were used for goods , and passenger trains were pulled by horses at first ( on the same tracks ) . |
| 7 | Under Somoza , there were scarcely any official prisons as such ; rather , the National Guard command posts were used for detention . |
| 8 | They argue that long-term technological changes mean that manufacturing needs more space per worker , and also often larger plots , and that this both puts cities at a disadvantage in relation to other areas and means that , even if all available urban land were used for manufacturing , there would still be a decline in employment . |
| 9 | During one practical session when the kitchens were used for survey purposes , booklice were actually found in the flour storage bins . |
| 10 | III were used for accumulation in Dept . |
| 11 | ( The cases all concern referees known as " valuers " , but the same difficulty could arise with experts if the umpire procedure were used for experts , which modern practice has made rare : see 9.8.2 . ) |
| 12 | Separate questionnaires were used for mothers and fathers . |
| 13 | Whilst the costs of conservation can be measured relatively easily ( for example , the direct costs of site management or the production possibilities if the land were used for agriculture or forestry ) , there are almost no tangible measures of the benefits of conservation . |
| 14 | Modern economics and technology have created a throw-away society based on costs and profits , and the days when only best quality woods were used for joinery are long gone . |
| 15 | Standard procedures were used for plasmid DNA manipulations ( 13 ) . |
| 16 | Bovis Homes points out that the exterior and lobby area were used for location shots , but not the interiors . |
| 17 | Twenty-five cycles were used to amplify K1 mRNA and 30 cycles were used for I-A α -chain and E-cadherin mRNAs . |
| 18 | The pope , as St Peter 's heir and bishop of Rome , needed episcopal orders — the highest orders of the Church which gave the bishop power to ordain priests , confirm members of the Church and bless the holy oils which were used for ordinations and for the sick . |
| 19 | ( The women also had tusks , so that I wondered if they were used for offence or defence . |
| 20 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 21 | Balloon tamponade ( Linton tube ) and vasoactive drugs ( vasopressin ) were used for haemorrhage which persisted despite sclerotherapy ( four cases ) . |
| 22 | Using the same techniques as were used for Studies 2 and 3 measures of recognition sensitivity , P(A) and bias , B , were calculated . |
| 23 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 24 | In Medieval times rivers were used for water supply and to power mills as well as for navigation . |
| 25 | Thus , 11 samples were used for adenylate cyclase , nine for cAMP , six for guanylate cyclase , and six for cGMP determination in the untreated patients . |
| 26 | Apparently the French burs were used for corn grinding whilst the others were used for animal feed , a common combination to be found in many rural mills . |
| 27 | We never observed any labelled protein when wild type oligonucleotides were used for competition . |
| 28 | Precoated silica gel thin layer high resolution plates ( Whatman HP-KF 10×10 cm ) were used for chromatography . |
| 29 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 30 | Mantel-Haenszel weights were used for summary risk ratio estimates . |