Example sentences of "[noun pl] were use for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , bistables based on individual transistors are sometimes used and valves were used for the purpose many years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ It tells us nothing in terms of lessons that can be learned , what sort of materials were used for the curtains , whether a sprinkler system was installed and whether they worked properly . |
| 3 | After being washed with phosphate buffered saline ( PBS ) , the PBMCs from healthy controls were used for the ADCC assay as effector cells . |
| 4 | Various woods were used for the chair frames : oak , walnut , beech , mulberry , chestnut , and sometimes alder and lime . |
| 5 | ( For computational reasons scaling factors were used for the Marshall and Bayes formulae to avoid underflow ) . |
| 6 | For example , a historian will be interested in finding out what is written on a sheet of medieval vellum , whereas an archaeologist will want to know what animal skin was used , how the vellum was made , and what pigments were used for the ink . |