Example sentences of "[adj] used for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the film show a set of questions similar to those used for the press folder test are asked . |
| 2 | It is instructive to begin with to compare the stones listed by the Greek naturalist and philosopher Theophrastus ( 373/ 368–c.287 B.C. ) , in so far as these can be certainly identified , with those used for the stamp seals of the Aegean world during the second millennium B.C. and the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia as far back as the fourth . |
| 3 | Its part is often written in the treble clef on G ( 2nd line ) but it is quite immaterial which clef or note is used , provided that a note different from those used for the side-drum and triangle ( if these appear in the same score ) is chosen . |
| 4 | The significance of these canthari , therefore , is problematical : all four are of larger tesserae than the tesserae in the central square , the tesserae being more akin to those used for the background filling . |
| 5 | They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer . |
| 6 | The faceless head and the zombie that spills its guts are created by means similar to those used for the death of Murphy in RoboCop . |
| 7 | Self expandable steel braided endoprostheses were first used for the treatment of vascular and urological benign strictures , with good clinical results . |
| 8 | It is now over 40 years since exfoliative cytology was first used for the diagnosis of pancreatobiliary disease , Lemon and Byrne diagnosing pancreatic cancer from cells exfoliated into the duodenum . |