Example sentences of "used [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first half is used for the traditional binning of the wines selected for the house , and the second half for the storage of dry , tinned and bottled goods . |
| 2 | Suppose then that we divide the mental lexicon into a semantic system , a phonological system and a visual recognition system ( used for the visual recognition of words ) . |
| 3 | A stationary engine was used for the final haul up the tunnel into St Leonards Goods Yard . |
| 4 | These reception centres are also used for the temporary care of children where it is necessary to change the foster or other home . |
| 5 | Each of these derived vectors ( pAcAB3 , pAcAB4 ) have been used for the simultaneous expression of three or four bluetongue virus ( BTV ) genes respectively . |
| 6 | Hydrogel contact lenses , for example , can be used for the controlled release of antibiotics to patients waiting for cataract surgery . |
| 7 | His work was crucial to the initial break into the German enciphered teleprinter systems used for the highest level of German services communications . |
| 8 | During the inquiry they ask for the electronic serial number of the mobile phone which is then used for the illegal duplication of the phone unit . |
| 9 | So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche . |
| 10 | At Dingleton Hospital in the borders a community model based on teams for home visiting and treatment has been used for the scattered population of 100 000 since the 1960s when Dr Maxwell Jones extended from the hospital his ideas about therapeutic communities . |
| 11 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 12 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 13 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 14 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 15 | As we have seen in the previous chapter , the terms semiotics or semiology are now usually used for the general theory of signs , which in its European structuralist versions has played an enormously important role in modern literary theory . |
| 16 | Such societies have increased in number and diversity , as the numbers of scientists have increased , and their meetings are still used for the early communication of research results . |
| 17 | The woodcut reproducible illustration , and even wooden letters for printing , made their first appearance in China , but it was as late as the fourteenth century in Europe before paper ( brought to Europe by the Arabs in the late twelfth century , when the traditional material of parchment was in short supply ) began to be extensively used for the new technology of xylography : repeatable woodcut designs in fabrics extended to rapidly reproducible illustrations . |
| 18 | The technical word phenotype is used for the bodily manifestation of a gene , the effect that a gene , in comparison with its alleles , has on the body , via development . |
| 19 | Finally there is a fifth meaning , which possibly has some evolutionary connection with the fourth meaning , and it is used for the instinctive affection of parents for the offspring . |
| 20 | typefaces used for the main text of written material . |
| 21 | The curtilage of a building will include the ground that is used for the comfortable enjoyment of that building even though it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way ( Sinclair-Lockhart 's Trustees v Central Land Board ( 1950 ) 1 P & CR 195 ) . |
| 22 | The Canal Bus Pass included in all Amsterdam Travel Service holidays can be used for the full duration of this special cruise or combined with a full day of visits to other places of interest . |
| 23 | However , there are occasions when speech is used for the detailed transmission of factual information . |
| 24 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 25 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 26 | Even the garden , which can be used for the conspicuous display of flowers and shrubs rather than the more utilitarian purpose of growing food , may become part of this . |
| 27 | Used for the past couple of years in their mainstream freestanding CD players , Technics 's single-bit converter system MASH ( Multi-Stage Noise Shaping ) has now found its way into a new portable machine , the SL-XPS900 . |
| 28 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 29 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 30 | 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 . |