Example sentences of "used for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southern king crab seems to prefer dolphin meat to other kinds of flesh also used for bait , such as sea lion , penguin , fur seals and cormorant . |
| 2 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 3 | This patient was sensitive to yeast and reacted to it in very small amounts , so that she produced a positive reaction even with the minute quantities that they used for testing . |
| 4 | Into those crates would go clothes , shoes , the occasional toy , school books , Captain and Mrs Burrows ' books which they used for sermon preparation , a typewriter and the musical instruments . |
| 5 | Peppermint , M. x piperita , needs no description as to smell , but the leaves of black peppermint tend to be ovate , 6cm ( 2½in ) long and 4cm ( 1½in ) wide , and are purple tinged — this is grown commercially and is the one used for peppermint tea , so popular in North Africa , Pineapple mint , M. rotundifolia " Variegata " , is a form of the round-leaved mint , which often crosses with M. longifolia . |
| 6 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |
| 7 | The flavour and aroma of sweet marjoram , although characteristically a marjoram , is appreciably different , and a third , pot marjoram ( O. onites ) , also used for cooking , has the advantage that it is a hardy perennial , though its flavour is much less attractive than that of the other two . |
| 8 | He said that it should not be regarded as a luxury but used for education , rural development and economic reform : the time had come , he said , ‘ for television to change its outlook in this country in order to suit the requirements of a developing country like Zambia ’ . |
| 9 | The view that has found favour amongst those involved with Earth Mysteries , and one which seems to spring out of the page when these legends are brought together , is that most folklore associated with ancient sites can best be interpreted in terms of the survival of the old pagan religion and , one of its wellsprings , the existence of some form of energy which the ancient people were sensitive to and which they used for healing and in their rituals . |
| 10 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 11 | In the confines of the small studios Doctor Who used for recording , they proved cumbersome and unwieldy . |
| 12 | If it is allowed to get too hot it also produces dioxin , an unacceptable contaminant in the TCP used for manufacture of hexachlorophene . |
| 13 | But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail . |
| 14 | The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them . |
| 15 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 16 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 17 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 18 | It used for traffic patrol , accident attendance and for anti-crime patrols ( an increasing necessity , apparently , with street crime increasing rapidly in the Russian capital ) . |
| 19 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 20 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 21 | Press reports were poorly informative : one paper did not even mention Elisabeth nor , incidentally , the procedure I used for fertilisation . |
| 22 | Imagine a similar hilltop in the lovely countryside of Aviemore and a small stone-built lodge providing shelter for a corporal and two airmen at one of the quadrants of a bombing range that Kinloss used for practice . |
| 23 | Bruce had a simple pendulum of the kind people employ to locate water , and which he used for diagnosis . |
| 24 | Mr John Lamidey , an officer of the Data Protection Registrar , concluded after visiting the league 's London office that the data on computer was not that used for vetting , which ‘ appears to be held on paper ’ . |