Example sentences of "use [prep] many " in BNC.

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1 On two consecutive years the venue , one used for many conferences , tried to cancel our booking .
2 If memory serves me right , I was promoted to Div 45 paddling in an Augsburg 72 , a high volume boat which I also used for many white water trips .
3 In the wake of major advances in medicine and technology it 's interesting to hear that not only is acupuncture still used for many human conditions , but there is also an increasing trend toward using acupuncture for pets .
4 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 .
5 These should include mild and hot peppers ( the jalapeño pepper is not for the faint hearted ) , and tomato sauces for tacos which can also be used for many other dishes .
6 In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes .
7 Norwegians are keen to train their dogs and Rottweilers are used for many purposes , from mountain rescue to drug detection .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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 publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry .
12 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
13 The land is used for many purposes : for housing , factories , rail and roadways , airports , water reservoirs , recreation , amenity , forestry and farming .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Skipping ropes are popular and can be used for many activities as well as skipping , jumping over and crawling under .
17 Food , in our society , is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger .
18 The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies .
19 Some of these arguments have called into question methods of accounting for capital instruments used for many years which had previously appeared uncontroversial .
20 The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge .
21 James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley .
22 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 ) .
23 The solution has been found by submitting the agreement to English law , widely thought to be the fairest and most flexible , and therefore used for many international transactions .
24 It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store .
25 The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs .
26 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 .
27 Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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