Example sentences of "used for building " in BNC.

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1 Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers .
2 LDL carry cholesterol to tissues where the cholesterol is off-loaded to be used for building membranes or for conversion into various hormones .
3 It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ .
4 Gerwyn explains , ‘ You take a block of woodland , and leaving the occasional tree known as a standard , traditionally used for building timber , you cut the rest down to ground level and remove all the waste timber completely .
5 Lebanon is not elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible usually connected with burning and while it is natural enough — even while we are still in line A — to suppose that it is the trees of Lebanon that are for burning , even though they are typically used for building , it is impossible to discern from line A what purpose is in view in burning Lebanon 's trees , and thus why Lebanon 's trees are insufficient for burning .
6 Timber was used for building where stone was rare or expensive to transport but , for important building in abbeys , cathedrals and castles , the same style and stone material was employed whether in London or elsewhere .
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