Example sentences of "is use for " in BNC.

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1 the exhaust air is not used to cool the motor ; a separate stream of air is used for this .
2 The brewhouse has an eight-barrel mash tun , a second and larger tun bought from Peter Austin , founder of the Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire , which is used for Bob 's main seller , the 1035° bitter , and two fermenters .
3 Masham can never supply the whole S&N estate so extra capacity in Newcastle is used for this purpose .
4 Moulded nylon is used for the free-floating trigger bar which can be used with one or two fingers , inside or out .
5 Acupuncture is used for the healing and relief of pain such as arthritis , muscle and ligament strains , and some forms of paralysis .
6 Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day .
7 In Jewish , Christian and Islamic tradition the word ‘ God ’ is used for God not because its meaning is thought to correspond to the nature of God , but simply as a convenient label for the ultimate , altogether incomprehensible mystery because of which things exist instead of there not being anything at all .
8 Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation .
9 Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart .
10 Tower mills are similar to smock mills in shape and working machinery , but brick or stone is used for the structure instead of wood .
11 Rutland Water , where water is used for human consumption , is a classic case .
12 The wok is used for the majority of Eastern cookery .
13 And since only about 3% of water is drunk , while a great deal is used for cruder purposes , much of the industry 's investment will be flushed down the drain .
14 Coal is used for only three purposes : heating houses , generating electricity and making steel .
15 Unlike 12 C and 13 C , 14 C is unstable and therefore radioactive : hence the name ‘ radiocarbon ’ is used for this isotope which , because of its scientific designation , is also called ‘ carbon fourteen ’ .
16 If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon .
17 It is n't used for power , it is used for purity and clarity , and that 's how you create that sense of space .
18 The Swedish-made Werax is used for opening and emptying standard drums without the need for removing the standard cap .
19 The garden is tackled single-handedly and she uses no new-fangled gadgets , except for an old trusty rotary mower which is used for the grass bank alongside the road .
20 Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc .
21 Beekeepers have been banned from moving bees within a four-mile radius of the apiary , which is used for training .
22 Scopolamine is used for travel sickness .
23 The zeolite is used for solvent recovery and waste gas purification .
24 X-ray bean diameters can range from 0.4 to 1.2 mm and a pointer positioning system is used for sample positioning .
25 It is the company 's second laser flash instrument and is used for measuring materials at temperatures up to 1100°C and can be upgraded for testing at temperatures between 1000 and 2000°C .
26 The old dining-room is now a brass rubbing centre and the drawing-room is used for meetings and lectures .
27 A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too .
28 My 1972 SWB Series III is clad with 7,50 x 16 tyres and is used for getting to work and occasional horse box towing
29 ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading pupils should be introduced to the complex regularity that underlies the spelling of words with inflectional endings , eg bead-ing , bead-ed , bed-d-ing , bed-d-ed. ( iv ) Teaching should encourage discussion of the range of vocabulary , eg from informal to formal , everyday to specialist , its use in different settings and for different purposes and the effect of particular choices of words , eg the kinds of topics slang is used for ; the situations in which slang is used ; the need for specialist terms and the effects of their use outside the specialist group .
30 The soft broom is used for light sweeping on smooth surfaces and the hard type for rough or wet work .
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