Example sentences of "were used for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the war these derelict pits were used for various purposes ; Lee 's or Houlder pit became a bomb and ammunition store for the R.A.F. The top pit of Batchelors was used by the Home Guard as a rifle range , and for other weapon training . |
| 2 | Band-shift experiments were performed in the presence of 600–900 ng of sonicated E.coli DNA as previously reported ; 2–3 µg of nuclear protein and 0.03–0.06 ng labelled probe ( specific activity = 0.5–1.0 10 5 cpm/ng DNA ) were used for each assay . |
| 3 | In treated patients and in controls six samples were used for each index . |
| 4 | The same sequences were used for each task and video-tapes were made of each sequence . |
| 5 | White Greek marbles were used for interior work also coloured ones from Thessaly and areas near Istanbul . |
| 6 | In contrast , when tape-slide presentations were used for individual instruction , students found them more acceptable . |
| 7 | Woodcuts were used for cheap publications , like the chapbooks sold by chapmen or pedlars ; but these had crude illustrations . |
| 8 | The following solutions were used for endoscopic injection : for the epinephrine group , we injected 0.5–1.0 ml of 1:10000 epinephrine at 2–3 mm around the bleeder with a maximum volume of 15 ml ; for the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group , we injected the same volume of 1:10000 epinephrine followed by 0.3–0.5 ml of alcohol ( 99.8% ) around the bleeder with maximal volume of 3 ml . |
| 9 | Reacting to Ms Ashworth 's claim , BT said it would be appalled if those machines were used for that purpose . |
| 10 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 11 | Transfer RNA ( tRNA ) , C1300 and HeLa RNA were used for negative controls . |
| 12 | The neighbourhood associations were used for administrative functions , but members were also encouraged to spy and report on fellow members to minimize disloyalty and unpatriotic behaviour , encouraging an atmosphere of mutual suspicion . |
| 13 | Ketamine hydrochloride ( Ketalar , Parke-Davis , United Kingdom ) and xylazin chloride ( Rompun , Bayer , Germany ) given intraperitoneally were used for general anaesthesia . |
| 14 | Six classes were used for ulcerative colitis ( table II ) . |
| 15 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 16 | The median and minimum of the readings for each patient were used for intergroup comparisons and for assessment of the relationship between blood flow and endoscopic grade . |
| 17 | One biopsy specimen from the antrum and another from the corpus were used for rapid urease testing ( CLO test , Delta West ) . |
| 18 | The Mann-Whitney U rank sum test and Spearman rank correlation test were used for statistical evaluation . |
| 19 | Student 's t test and Pearson 's correlation were used for statistical analysis . |
| 20 | This was partly because of difficulties of communications : ancient Greek diplomacy was conducted on foot for the most part , and runners rather than mounted dispatch-riders were used for urgent messages . |
| 21 | Two sets of track were used for fitting parts above the solebar , wheeling wagons alternately . |
| 22 | Styling wax and extra strong mousse were used for this look . |
| 23 | As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only three of Armenia 's fleet of seven helicopters remained , the rest having been shot down by Azerbaijani forces claiming that they were used for military purposes . |
| 28 | They were used for unaimed shots , fired from the hip by men advancing in mass , while a British infantryman was trained to shoot from a prone position at a target . |
| 29 | Dual sleeve manometric assemblies were used for concurrent monitoring of lower oesophageal sphincter ( LOS ) and UOS pressures . |
| 30 | Brabin J. commented on the site chosen for the defendant 's premises which were used for fat rendering , an offensive trade . |