Example sentences of "be used for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He also handed over a cheque for £500 to be used for technological development in the programme .
2 Only a part of the electromagnetic spectrum can be used for remote sensing for , as noted earlier , energy in some spectral bands is absorbed or scattered by the atmosphere .
3 On Nov. 17 Rafsanjani condemned the United States for attempting to dissuade China and India from transferring to Iran nuclear technology to be used for non-military purposes .
4 Rozen reported hypoxia and recommended that narcotics should not be used for gastrintestinal endoscopy in the elderly .
5 As well as helping us transmute negative emotions such as anger , fear and hate into optimism and joy , they can be used for psychic protection — and the effect can be immediate .
6 Up to eight 16Mb or 32Mb modules can be used for global memory at $12,000 for 16Mb , $16,000 for 32Mb .
7 This study underlines the highly selective nature of relationships which can be used for emotional support in life circumstances which are personally distressing or disruptive .
8 The lecture periods could be used for outside visitors , or for specific and relevant accounts by teachers who did not normally participate in the work ; examples were the playing of records of part of Haydn 's Creation with explanation and commentary , by a teacher made specially available , and a talk on Red Indian tribes by a visitor from a local museum , together with overhead transparencies , slides and objects from the museum collection .
9 This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations .
10 Can be used for individual study .
11 They may be used for simple emphasis , as in ( 5 ) ( c ) , or to highlight some property , implied by the noun but still in some way surprising as in ( 5 ) ( a ) , or for the sake of a contrast , as in ( 5 ) ( b ) .
12 Used in conjunction with a normal trowel for coinshooting , it can sit on the belt out of the way and be used for easy recovery of the deeper targets .
13 Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing .
14 The company says the funds will be used for continued product development .
15 However , it does allow numeric variables to be used for logical operations .
16 In addition , the ‘ Design Now ’ room can be used for temporary exhibitions selected ( we are informed ) , not only by V&A staff but also by industrialists , critics , visitors , and makers — by individuals ‘ with distinctive views about design ’ .
17 One solution to the problem is to think of the prescribed forms of standard written English as a sort of register : a variety to be used for specific purposes ( including writing coursework essays and exam answers ) which nevertheless may not be a variety that you identify much with , by comparison with the usage of your family and friends .
18 These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement .
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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