Example sentences of "are used for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selective reinforcement , the rewarding of required and approved behaviour , can be a useful technique for teachers , where praise and approval are used for shaping and maintaining desired student performance , especially in the early stages of learning when students need this kind of reassurance and when the work itself has not yet become intrinsically satisfying . |
| 2 | They are used for teaching large groups of students and they make use of both auditory and visual sensory inputs ( via the blackboard or overhead projector ) . |
| 3 | Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals . |
| 4 | Its main disadvantage , the sorry state the diagram reaches when manually drawn out versions are used for monitoring and are continually amended , is no longer a disadvantage when a computer is used . |
| 5 | Anaerobic digesters work on a similar principle and are used for creating gas from sewage and other wastes . |
| 6 | Thus in the larvae of Chaoborus and its allies they are adapted for seizing the prey , while those of the male of Meloe and several other insects are used for holding the females . |
| 7 | One distinctive theme of the Newcastle RRL work is the problem of integrating zonal datasets--in other words , bringing together information that was published for different sets of areas ( over 50 different sets of areas are used for reporting statistics about Britain 's localities ) . |
| 8 | Their silks are used for furnishing and dress fabrics , ties , shawls , scarves and handkerchiefs . |
| 9 | Amersham is paying $61.3m ( £38.3m ) to acquire Medi-Physics , the loss-making radiopharmaceuticals subsidiary of Hoffman-La Roche , to make the UK company the largest player in the £300m world radiopharmaceutical market , whose products are used for imaging organs of the body for diagnostic purposes . |
| 10 | Flat rolls are used for levelling grassland and burying small stones before shutting up for hay . |
| 11 | They are used for setting boundaries , for attracting one 's kind and alienating other kinds , for demarcating ’ . |
| 12 | Both gas and electric instantaneous heaters are used for supplying water at a single point . |
| 13 | Among the Odonata all the legs are adapted for seizing and retaining the prey and are hardly ever used for locomotory purposes , while in the Bombyliidae the slender legs are used for alighting rather than walking . |
| 14 | These cards and envelopes are used for establishing goodwill , advertising purposes and for soliciting business . |
| 15 | The clearing banks keep operational balances at the Bank which are used for settling the final position at the end of the day between the Bank and the banking system , and their drawing down of money from the discount houses will be designed to keep these balances at a " target " level considered appropriate given the uncertainty of the daily cash flows to the Bank . |
| 16 | BEEM capsules ( Polaron Equipment Ltd , Watford , Herts ) are used for embedding with a low viscosity resin ( e.g. Spurr ) . |
| 17 | They then draw off some of the horse 's blood , remove the serum containing the antibodies , return the blood to the horse , and these horses are used for producing the tetanus erm antibodies . |
| 18 | Water or spirit based felt tipped pens are used for writing on them . |
| 19 | Hand hoes of the Dutch or triangular pattern are used for singling roots and weeding in the row . |
| 20 | The same products are used for treating scabies as are used for pubic lice . |
| 21 | angle brackets are used for nesting within syntax rules |
| 22 | Very few horses are used for working horses . |
| 23 | For the projected sales and costs ( budget ) in the forthcoming year , which need to be drawn up whether or not they are used for obtaining bank finance , the haulier could use the profit-and-loss budget form recommended by the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ( see below ) . |
| 24 | The ego ideal is replaced in hypnosis by the primal father , in the primal horde and all groups in which these emotions are used for keeping it together over time . |
| 25 | Bituminous paints are used for protecting exterior metal work — gutters , downpipes and so on — and not as damp proofers . |
| 26 | Paper money and copper-nickel coins are used for making payments in most countries but readers will appreciate that most money in advanced economies takes the form of bank deposits which are transferred between parties by means of cheque , giro and other payment mechanisms or techniques . |
| 27 | They then run it into pits , break it up , and use it for road stone or alternatively , the molten slag is run over water-cooled rollers where it forms little tiny pellets with a high air content which are used for making insulation blocks . |
| 28 | These markings are found on many of the cat family and are used for signalling their intentions and mood to others . |
| 29 | Two main types of joint are used for joining lengths of copper pipe together : the capillary joint and the compression joint . |
| 30 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |