Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace .
2 Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses .
3 You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’
4 Doubling periods have been measured for other sciences ; thus May determined that mathematical literature doubles every 28 years .
5 As for the evolutionary precursors of the system , both hydrogen peroxide and various kinds of quinones are used for other purposes in body chemistry .
6 English is one of the languages that do not use tone in this way though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes ; such languages are sometimes called intonation languages .
7 These observations are valuable irrespective of Planet X , because planetary ephemerides are needed for other purposes such as spacecraft navigation and pulsar data reduction , and are instrumental in precise tests of theories of gravitation .
8 Licences are needed for other types of brokerage and she argues that it would give her business respectability .
9 There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now .
10 PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) .
11 A contract of barter , i.e. where goods are exchanged for other goods — lacks this element and is not a contract of sale .
12 Countertrade may take forms such as counter purchase , which requires suppliers to a country to buy a certain amount of goods in return , or barter , where goods are exchanged for other goods .
13 Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties .
14 Similar rationalisations are found for other forms of addictive disease .
15 After transfer of entries from the Working-Set , the space used for that dictionary range is returned to the system and will be re-used for other tables .
16 It follows that this approach may also be applied for other types of space-times which contain two commuting Killing vectors .
17 45 kilos of plastic Much of that could be saved for other uses and not simply destroyed .
18 Their services will be sought for other functions .
19 If you have mastered cut and sew , this can be used for other shaping , for example by knitting a straight sleeve and cutting it to the shape required .
20 To demonstrate that not all biomaterials are used in direct tissue replacement , but may be used for other functions , Pankaj Vadgama discusses some of the special problems encountered when using invasive biosensors to detect changes in physiological parameters such as blood-gas levels and pH levels , at specific sites .
21 Because production speed is important but flexibility more so ( the system has to be used for other things as well ) we adopted Aldus PageMaker as our standard layout package , we run it on both Macintosh and PC systems , and Word Perfect as our word processor .
22 Once trained , they could be used for other things too .
23 Ebony and Ivory follows the same format as Look — No Hands , it is full of punchcard designs which can be used for other projects .
24 The next job is to reconfigure the mexeflote rafts so that they can be used for other tasks .
25 Once sheep is acquired , for instance , the word dog is no longer over-extended to sheep , even though it may still be used for other kinds of mammals ( Clark , 1973a , 1978 ; Barrett , 1978 ) .
26 One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes .
27 A well built unit can always be used for other purposes should your venture not come up to expectation .
28 One advantage is that if for any reason the storage system becomes unused the building may be used for other purposes .
29 The buildings could be used for other purposes and we 'd welcome that .
30 Feedback resistors of 3kΩ are included in the chip but , again , external resistors can be used for other gain settings ; care must be exercised here , though , to avoid instability , increased noise and reduced bandwidth .
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