Example sentences of "use for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
2 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
3 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
4 | A courteous man , he had an expression that he used for all seasons — ‘ Lovely ! |
5 | On two consecutive years the venue , one used for many conferences , tried to cancel our booking . |
6 | The card background I used for this photo frame was an extremely pale peachy pink , on which I placed some rose leaves , heuchera flowers and green spiky leaves , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ roses forming the central focus . |
7 | The Seagate drives I used for this article required 2 jumper connections made on the master drive , and all the connectors removed from the slave drive … |
8 | Skipping ropes are popular and can be used for many activities as well as skipping , jumping over and crawling under . |
9 | Food , in our society , is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger . |
10 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
11 | Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection . |
12 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
13 | The land is used for many purposes : for housing , factories , rail and roadways , airports , water reservoirs , recreation , amenity , forestry and farming . |
14 | The potential is very high , since horticultural information could be used for many purposes , such as ecological and climatological monitoring , as well as mainstream horticulture . |
15 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
16 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
17 | Social research is happily so varied in its subjects of study that a wide variety of techniques may be used for many research projects . |
18 | The keys used for many data files are not suited to any practical self-indexing transformation , so other methods of establishing a relationship between record keys and storage addresses have been developed . |
19 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
20 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
21 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
22 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
23 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
24 | Some of these arguments have called into question methods of accounting for capital instruments used for many years which had previously appeared uncontroversial . |
25 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
26 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
27 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
28 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
29 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
30 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |