Example sentences of "[was/were] used for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Styling wax and extra strong mousse were used for this look . |
| 2 | As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 5 | The US military were already spending vast sums on making tritium for warheads and the reactors that were used for this process had been closed , pending repairs , in 1988 as a result of nervousness about reactor safety following the Chernobyl accident . |
| 6 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 7 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 8 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 9 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 10 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 11 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 12 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |