Example sentences of "[is] [adv] use for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed . |
| 2 | In France , from where the machines originate , double knitting is mostly used for lace . |
| 3 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 4 | it may be worth trying quinine which is widely used for night cramps . |
| 5 | Cassava , sugar cane , fruit crops , coffee and cotton are also grown and irrigation in the Venezuelan region is widely used for grain production . |
| 6 | Although alcohol is widely used for motor fuel nobody has yet extensively developed liquid alcohol as an alternative source of cooking fuel . |
| 7 | C.I.P.C. is widely used for sprout inhibition . |
| 8 | Local authority testing in Britain is rarely used for accountability purposes . |
| 9 | It 's not used very often , actually , it 's only used for security purposes really . |
| 10 | Today the rebêche is only used for distillation ( into either prestation vinique — alcohol for oath-taking , or eaux-de-vie — grape brandies ) and table wine ( if the natural alcoholic content is 6% or more , unlikely for vin de rebêche ) or ‘ wine not fit for human consumption ’ ( but presumably fit for distillation into industrial spirits ) if less than 6% natural alcoholic content . |
| 11 | The system is much used for radio-frequency investigations but in principle is applicable at audio frequencies too . |
| 12 | One technique involves the picking up of spread cells from the surface of a saline or sucrose solution onto a slide and is generally used for spermatocyte spreading when an abundance of cells is available in suspension . |
| 13 | Narrow ( 29 cm ) paper is generally used for draft maps to reduce costs . |
| 14 | It is normally used for writing . |
| 15 | On the other hand , radio is still used for diversity of routing or for emergency circuits , particularly in tricky terrain or earthquake-prone zones where optical fibre circuits might fracture . |
| 16 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 17 | The Jubilee Methodist chapel at Hutton , 1860 , is still used for worship . |
| 18 | It 's still used for target practice — a poignant reminder of the Cold War , the end of which heralded the last post for RAF Hullavington . |
| 19 | Calf leather is extensively used for walking boots as it is relatively soft and easy to break in , while hide will be used for heavy-duty mountaineering boots . |
| 20 | The prefix thio- is also used for sulphur analogues of oxonanions ( see table 4.12 ) . |
| 21 | The whip is also used for correction when needed it should be used with discretion and never to vent one 's anger on a horse for one 's own inadequacies . |
| 22 | It is excellent for turnery , for the backs and handles of hair-brushes , and is also used for jute bobbins . |
| 23 | These uses are on land which is also used for farming . |
| 24 | Matsushita researchers have developed ‘ beam cursor ’ software for the interface of the stylus beam with the objects displayed , which is also used for re-orientation of the entire room itself . |
| 25 | Not only is this format the simplest and earliest means of storing numeric data in the computer , it is also used for store addresses and forms the basis for encoding the individual subportions of more complicated arithmetic data-types , such as the fraction and exponent of the floating-point format described in 2.2 . |
| 26 | It is also used for model glider towlines for these reasons , and in particular , nylon monofilament has enough elasticity to catapult a model glider to greater height than the line length when launched with a strong tension . |
| 27 | So , and dad it 's also used for paint , paper , pottery |
| 28 | Among the smaller examples Oakham Castle in Rutland still possesses its Great Hall which is famous for its windows , doorways and Transitional style capitals ; it dates from 1190 and is now used for Assize Court sittings . |
| 29 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 30 | The whole room , part of larger premises , is now used for coal storage but the salient features of the story , the fireplace and coal recess are in situ and it was not difficult to reconstruct the strange winter scene of over four generations ago . |