Example sentences of "[be] used for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But documents can be dangerous things if used without care and if , as sometimes happens , they are used for partial and selective purposes . |
| 2 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 3 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 4 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 5 | Catheters and endoscopes can be used for safer and less painful investigations . |
| 6 | Plastic pipe can be used for hot and cold supplies and for central heating systems — provided the first length of pipe connected to the boiler is copper . |
| 7 | Twenty years later still , under Louis IX and with the needs of the crusade in mind , a port was built at Aigues-Mortes on the Mediterranean , to be used for commercial and , even more so , for military purposes . |
| 8 | This method can only be used for non-porous and crystalline rocks ( particularly limestones ) , as the lead tends to be forced into any pores and , unlike powdered abrasives , it can not be washed away . |
| 9 | Afterwards , to be used for residential and business purposes , as well as student accommodation |
| 10 | The same physiological selection criteria for operation were used for young and old patients alike . |
| 11 | Johns suggests that in both English and Brazilian academic papers , the indicative/informative distinction correlates with the choice of tense : the present tense is used for indicative and the past tense for informative statements . |
| 12 | If priming effects are to be attributed to residual activation of logogens , the absence of cross-modal priming effects means that one must abandon the view that a single logogen system is used for visual and auditory word recognition , picture naming , and responding to definitions . |
| 13 | Decoction : This is used for hard and woody plant material such as roots , rhizomes and barks . |
| 14 | This procedure was introduced in an attempt to save time on the floor of the House and is used for unopposed and non controversial legislation . |