Example sentences of "[was/were] used for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis . |
| 4 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 5 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 6 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 7 | The serum samples from patients with high cytotoxic activity were used for the subsequent ADCC assay . |
| 8 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 9 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 10 | EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical . |
| 11 | Double-deckers were used for the maximum impact , including the historic Dreadnought , in 1964 . |
| 12 | Stone or marble was used for the lower parts of the walls , the upper being of sun-dried brick and timber . |
| 13 | The processing for the probabilistic syntactic analyser has been carried out on the same hardware that was used for the rule-based investigations ( i.e. a SUN Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) . |
| 14 | The single case was used for the straightforward earth burial and was by far the most common coffin type — and remains so today . |
| 15 | This type of machine was used for the digital sound recordings made by the Nippon Columbia company in 1972 , instead of for video . |
| 16 | A stationary engine was used for the final haul up the tunnel into St Leonards Goods Yard . |
| 17 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by them had ready access , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by the issues had ready access , he said . ’ |
| 19 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 20 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 21 | Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument . |
| 22 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 23 | When the total common hepatic duct was resected , the left hepatic duct approach was used for the hepaticojejunal anastomosis . |
| 24 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 25 | A Wilcoxson signed rank test was used for the paired testof samples . |
| 26 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |