Example sentences of "[be] used for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most versatile of the vinegars , these are used for general cookery and in many of the classic sauces . |
| 2 | The key point is that if the knives are used for one purpose and do not fall into the category of domestic cutlery there is a case for a ban . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At Magee College , the playing fields , which are convenient to the campus , are used for gaelic football , rugby and soccer . |
| 6 | In order to explore this more fully , we focus on a tax on capital at rate t assuming initially that the proceeds are used for current government expenditure . |
| 7 | The outcomes of these analyses are used for lexical access . |
| 8 | It is recognised that these are important aspects of the learning and teaching approaches for the modules and it is recommended that they are used for formative assessment . |
| 9 | Three common sizes are used for domestic plumbing — l5mm , 22mm and 28mm , all known as ‘ smallbore ’ . |
| 10 | They are used for rapid saving and restoring of the " process context " on entry to and exit from a subroutine , or in processor mode changes ( see 3.5 ) . |
| 11 | Some are used for public transport . |
| 12 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 13 | Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption , milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed . |
| 14 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 15 | Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | It is easy to see why it is the more unusual types of artefact that are used for this type of research . |
| 21 | A router is fixed to the cross-slide of the lathe for some operations , other jigs are used for spherical work . |
| 22 | These hot seeds are used for English mustard ( see p60 ) . |
| 23 | The local registers are used for local scalar storage as described , and the low registers are used for local storage and parameters to the procedure ‘ below ’ the current procedure . |
| 24 | Pre-packed , sterile Falcon ( Becton Dickinson & Co ) plastic Petri dishes , tubes and pipettes are used for conventional culture . |
| 25 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 26 | Lying to the south-west of Worcester city , St Wulstan 's had not historically been used for mental health services . |
| 27 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 28 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 29 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 30 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |