Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] use for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 The same sequences were used for each task and video-tapes were made of each sequence .
5 Annual reports and other donor information literature clearly state that blood donations are used for all patients in NHS and other hospitals .
6 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 .
7 Sections of 25 µm were cut from each block with a sterile no touch technique , and new blades were used for each to reduce contamination .
8 Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) .
9 Some of the retirement relief concepts are used for this relief .
10 Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection .
11 Firstly , in the 1970s and '80s ad hoc epidemiological studies were used for all of the common ( >=1/10000); and most of the moderately common congenital abnormalities .
12 Reacting to Ms Ashworth 's claim , BT said it would be appalled if those machines were used for that purpose .
13 Two arguments are used for this purpose .
14 The use of ‘ structured ’ interviews , with the same items being used for all interviewees , allows the generality of responses to be evaluated .
15 Gradually , however , different shapes developed to suit the respective functions , and the visual appearance of the separate tool and weapon types suggests that different alloys were used for each .
16 The same instruments and techniques were used for all the measurements .
17 Identical test meals were used for all the experiments .
18 In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes .
19 Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 Yeah numbers twenty five , twenty six of the junction of Torquay Road is for sale with a building plot in one of the gardens , the premises being used for many years as doctor 's surgery ancillary accommodation and car parking , the property will be available when the doctors move into the new practice home in joining Cricket Field Road car park
24 As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose .
25 Also , when words are syntactically ambiguous ( i.e. they can have more than one grammatical tag ) the corpus can provide information about how often each of the possible tags is used for that word .
26 Dublin 's brand of rock music merges at times with traditional music , and the studios are used for both styles .
27 In treated patients and in controls six samples were used for each index .
28 A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion .
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