Example sentences of "[noun] were used [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most computers were used either for word processing or simple information storage tasks ; very few were used for analysing business trends or problems . |
| 2 | Female animals were used only for the less significant peace-offerings when animals of either sex could be sacrificed ( Lev . |
| 3 | It must be remembered , of course , that Greek writing throughout the classical period was still relatively difficult to decipher as words were not regularly separated ; the copying of manuscripts was a long and laborious process ; and that silent reading as we know it was very rare ; until the advent of printing in the ancient world books were used mainly for reading aloud , often by a slave . |
| 4 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 5 | Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply . |