Example sentences of "[adv] use for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood is not only used for straightforward transfusions , products extracted from blood have a whole number of uses — from the treatment of burns to the prevention of infection . |
| 2 | Each new barrel costs £1.50 ; they are normally only used for one race and there are 50 barrels on a raft . |
| 3 | The living-room has a lived-in feel about it and the parlour , so immaculately tidy was so obviously only used for special occasions . |
| 4 | These days they are only used for ceremonial occasions . |
| 5 | The metal is much used for decorative ironwork . |
| 6 | Rear panel furniture is limited to a set of analogue outputs for connection to an amplifier input , and a coaxial digital output which might be better used for later upgrading via an outboard digital converter . |
| 7 | It was a sight worth dwelling on , but not much use for present purposes . |
| 8 | Recall the warning which you read above : All these fancy search algorithms which you have just read about are not really much use for algorithmic learning . |
| 9 | Electric lighting too , though disliked by Haussmann because of its coldness and considered by him as suitable only for illuminating building works at night , was nevertheless used for decorative purposes . |
| 10 | Fumigants are generally used for non-selective treatment of confined areas such as greenhouses . |
| 11 | Various grades are available , and the best is generally used for top-quality mountain and walking boots . |
| 12 | The seaplanes that do remain are small aircraft , not generally used for scheduled passenger services . |
| 13 | They are being kept in incubators , normally used for premature babies . |
| 14 | This construction is normally used for stiffer mountain boots , and the middle layer is normally the hardest . |
| 15 | Nowadays the term paradigmatic is normally used for this type of relationship , on the model of the grammatical notion of a paradigm , a tabular representation of the conjugation of a verb or the declension of a noun or adjective . |
| 16 | Simply the fastest around the course — normally used for open competitions . |
| 17 | Pitch fibre pipes are no longer used for new installations . |
| 18 | By the middle of the 18th century walnut was no longer used for fashionable furniture but continued in favour in the provinces where , late in the century , pieces were made in the style of 50 years earlier . |
| 19 | Small notebook systems have already been developed by the likes of Tandy Grid , NCR and Apple , and some of them are already use for simple form filling applications like supermarket stocktaking or car fleet management . |
| 20 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 21 | Linear dynamic models are widely used for economic forecasting and policy analysis . |
| 22 | A second version now widely used for these measurements is the Polymer Laboratories DMTA instrument and a schematic diagram of the working head is shown in figure 13.15 . |
| 23 | When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied . |
| 24 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 25 | The most disturbing fact about business intelligence is that the information obtained is rarely used for actual decision making … . |
| 26 | Birch is a sustainable and fast-growing timber from northern Europe , but it is rarely used for fine furniture because of the skill required to convert the logs . |
| 27 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 28 | Solid fuel tablets or burning paste are usually used for pre-heating paraffin or petrol burners . |
| 29 | Usually used for high quality stationery . |
| 30 | On Jan. 3 , 34 people sought asylum in the USA after flying to Miami in a Air Cubana helicopter usually used for flying tourists to Varadero . |