Example sentences of "[adv] be used for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was worried about the enormous expense involved , and he asked whether St James 's Palace , now empty , could not be used for the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | There were even suggestions that the atoll — an unincorporated territory of the USA , controlled since 1934 by the US military — might eventually be used for the reciprocal destruction of Soviet chemical weapons . |
| 3 | It has been used successfully in the drilling of the first extended-reach well to the offshore extension of the Sherwood reservoir lying under Poole Bay and is now being used for the second well being drilled . |
| 4 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , a plan to enlarge the main Prado building has unleashed a passionate controversy — not least because the suggested extension would not even be used for the permanent display of works of art . |
| 6 | Days when you are out all day can then be used for the simplest pieces . |