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 . |