Example sentences of "was used [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was used for industries from match making to house construction , from pit props to railway sleepers . |
| 2 | Prestel was used for ideas on screen presentation and demonstration materials were used offline and on-line . |
| 3 | Bile sodium ( Na + ) , potassium ( K + ) were measured potentiometric by a multichannel analyser ( Technicon SMAC analyser , Tarrytown , USA ) , which also was used for measurements of albumin and bilirubin concentrations . |
| 4 | The hammer-beamed GREAT HALL was built by James IV in the sixteenth century and was used on occasions for meetings of the Scots parliament . |
| 5 | The Grade II listed property was built for the St Quentin family of Scampston Hall and was used by women for tea parties while their husbands were out shooting . |
| 6 | In the 1950s and 1960s , oestrogen therapy was used by women in America so — the phrase went — they could be ‘ feminine forever ’ . |
| 7 | Holmes , for example , whose textbook ‘ Principles of physical geology ’ was used by generations of geology students , once had a paper rejected by the Geological Society of London , and thereafter refused to submit any papers to any of that body 's journals , throughout a very long and prolific career . |
| 8 | In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers . |
| 9 | The day coach was used by patients for dining and ablution purposes . |
| 10 | Tear gas was used against demonstrators at Brokdorf and Grohnde in West Germany ; at Kalkar a moat was dug to keep out an army of protesters . |