Example sentences of "used [prep] the construction " in BNC.

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1 The land would be used for the construction camp , but he had no doubt that there were ultimate plans to follow Lord Marshall 's alphabetic progression into D and even E stations .
2 Yarmouth corporation argued that Norwich Cathedral should be pulled down and its stone used for the construction of a workhouse , and in 1657 it was proposed that Rochester Cathedral should be sold and the proceeds used to pay the arrears owed to disabled sailors .
3 To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces .
4 Whatever the method chosen , these quantitative techniques are used for the construction of specific sales and market forecasts , whether it be at the level of the sales territory , market segment , national or even international market .
5 Whatever the method chosen , these techniques are used for the construction of specific sales and market forecasts , whether it be at the level of the sales territory , market segment ( see later chapter ) , national or even international market .
6 A database requires maintenance , not merely because new records will have to have their content assessed and controlled , but because when new ideas permeate the academic disciplines , this too should properly be reflected in the terminology used in the construction of records .
7 If the wall is to blend into your garden setting choose a product which complements the materials used in the construction of the house .
8 The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings .
9 The timbers used in the construction of railway carriages and wagons at Wolverton composed teak , oak , Jarrah , mahogany and deal .
10 Plant pieces are not actively used in the construction of the nest , but they may be employed as an anchor , or in the case of broad leaf plants that reach the surface , as a site for the whole nest .
11 Maple is the main wood used in the construction of both of these instruments .
12 ) Name any four woods commonly used in the construction of electric guitars .
13 As mercury is now used in the construction of batteries and vapour lamps this ‘ elixir , in traditional terminology was undoubtedly what is now known as ‘ electromagnetism ’ , the vital essence of all living things .
14 Butyl has a substantially longer life expectancy than pvc — it 's used in the construction of reservoirs — but it can still be damaged by piercing .
15 BGS is making geochemical tests on material from two deep boreholes at Dounreay , and investigating potential interactions between the alkali-rich cementitious material used in the construction of the repository and the saturated groundwater that would bathe it .
16 No plant matter is actively used in the construction of the nest , but it may be used indirectly to anchor the nest and stop it from floating away .
17 The master said that some wood used in the construction was from a beech tree which had been felled .
18 FIG. 1 The distribution of λ max values for all middle- and long-wave cones in our sample , including those used in the construction of the schematic matrices of Fig. 2 .
19 There , they will be able to ride in a train hauled by a 102-year-old locomotive that was used in the construction of the last mainline railway to be built in Britain .
20 The latest military technology was to be used in the construction of forts ( kreposti ) which were to be surrounded by massive earthworks , and to be of stone construction , unlike the seventeenth century ostrogi .
21 A change in the type of materials being used in the construction , such as a move from steel to fibre-reinforced plastics , can result in a change in design drafting rules and drawing techniques leading right through to the replacement of complete sections of manufacturing machines and skilled men .
22 This effect is used in the construction of dynamos .
23 The inquiry said economic pressures for more seating had impeded escape from the aircraft , and among its recommendations was to change the materials used in the construction of seats — 48 of the 55 dead were killed by smoke and toxic gases .
24 As a fair amount of iron was used in the construction of Caducius , we used a proton magnetometer to locate her position , this is a sensitive instrument that is towed behind the boat and measures the disturbance created by a mass of iron in the Earth 's magnetic field .
25 We know these materials were used in the construction of the Abbey at West MaIling and also the Tower of St. Leonards .
26 A brick or tile used in the construction of a building is a thing comprised in land by virtue of being attached to it .
27 What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings .
28 It is now known that the majority of standard statistical procedures used in the construction and evaluation of quantitative economic ( and other ) models , are sensitive to whether or not the data series to which they are applied are stable or unstable .
29 Countless pieces of high tech electronic equipment have been used in the construction of the Taste Sensation sequence , which runs on a continuous programme and lets six new visitors in at two minute intervals .
30 Pay attention to the materials used in the construction of the cabinet .
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