Example sentences of "used for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipping ropes are popular and can be used for many activities as well as skipping , jumping over and crawling under . |
| 2 | Food , in our society , is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger . |
| 3 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 4 | Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The land is used for many purposes : for housing , factories , rail and roadways , airports , water reservoirs , recreation , amenity , forestry and farming . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 10 | Social research is happily so varied in its subjects of study that a wide variety of techniques may be used for many research projects . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 14 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some of these arguments have called into question methods of accounting for capital instruments used for many years which had previously appeared uncontroversial . |
| 18 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 21 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 25 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 26 | Thus in RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farms [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 , a clause in a contract used for many years , with the approval of bodies representing both sides , was held to be reasonable . |
| 27 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 28 | Yeah numbers twenty five , twenty six of the junction of Torquay Road is for sale with a building plot in one of the gardens , the premises being used for many years as doctor 's surgery ancillary accommodation and car parking , the property will be available when the doctors move into the new practice home in joining Cricket Field Road car park |
| 29 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 30 | However , they sample the pupils in a more selective way , because not all pupils take the same kinds of public examinations , and different criteria are used for each kind . |