Example sentences of "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 . |