Example sentences of "used for this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second is that limited resources should not be used for this patient .
2 Masham can never supply the whole S&N estate so extra capacity in Newcastle is used for this purpose .
3 The buildings continued to be used for this purpose until the mid-1980s when an enterprising manager of a local farm realised that something could be done to salvage the structures for a more profitable use .
4 A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion .
5 Money transferred from the Social Security budget to local social services departments will be used for this purpose .
6 Complex polyphosphates are used for this purpose such as sodium tripolyphosphate or tetrasodium pyrophosphate .
7 Coarse sand can not be used for this purpose , because it soon enlarges the hole through which it flows .
8 The old offices of Lord President and Lord Privy Seal may conveniently be used for this purpose … .
9 As in most houses in those days , old garments were used for this purpose .
10 Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) .
11 The owner of premises to be used for this purpose is required to obtain a ‘ disposal licence ’ under section 5(1) of that Act to either commence , or if disposal was already being carried out before the Act came into force , to continue operations .
12 As finance for books may be limited , money given by patients could be used for this purpose .
13 Cardboard or plywood can be used for this purpose .
14 Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose .
15 Insulated wires should be used for this purpose , and colour coding will avoid confusion .
16 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 ) .
17 In English the word by is used for this purpose :
18 Many temples , caves , burial chambers and ‘ vision pits ’ have been constructed and used for this purpose .
19 A sign in a Zurich hotel says : ‘ Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom , it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose . ’
20 The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success .
21 A firm ‘ no ’ and the command ‘ sit ’ should be used for this purpose .
22 But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others .
23 In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia .
24 An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence .
25 To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 .
26 The virtual machines used for this purpose will have low priority call on resources to minimise the impact on interactive work .
27 Two arguments are used for this purpose .
28 When known to be present , iron and manganese can be easily removed from water , and there are several processes that are used for this purpose .
29 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 ) .
30 The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings .
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