Example sentences of "be used [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the SparcWorks compilers that are used to re-compile for both platforms are soon to get a re-working , including a name change , says Zander , but there will be no cross-compiler . |
| 2 | The latter mechanisms have also been used to account for limited segmental relaxations in the backbone of all carbon chain , single strand , polymers . |
| 3 | A number of general theories which have been used to account for such relationships are first described and evidence bearing on them is discussed . |
| 4 | I can recall , back in the early ‘ 80s , serious difficulty encountered in the Castle Brand Pension Fund which , when the Company closed , was found to be in serious deficit , as part of that fund had been used to pay for earlier redundancies in that Company . |
| 5 | There is then tremendous financial and social pressure on individual workers which can be used to account for high levels of commitment to the company . |
| 6 | Considerable variation was found within this population and comparisons are currently being made between those children who might be regarded as readers of poor , average and high ability to establish whether different patterns of cognitive abilities may be used to account for this variation . |
| 7 | This data will be used to test for any link between top executive pay and company performance . |
| 8 | The Air Miles that you collect can be exchanged for Holiday Vouchers that can be used to pay for all or part of your holiday . |
| 9 | A SPECIAL tax or a levy on lawyers should be used to pay for legal aid work , it was suggested yesterday . |
| 10 | The City solicitor whose letter is being used to vouch for Global Finance was shocked to hear of details of North Star 's advance fee demands . |
| 11 | It is difficult for an authority to pursue its priorities and plan to meet the needs of its population , whilst part of its resources are being used to pay for outward flows which may not figure in those priorities . |
| 12 | grant of £415,000 is being used to pay for some of this . |
| 13 | … is used to pay for small items needed in the day-to-day running of a business . |
| 14 | The χ 2 test was used to test for overall differences in proportions across the four intervention groups . |
| 15 | RNase protection analysis using a probe spanning the 25kDa/50kDa junction was used to search for smooth muscle myosin heterogeneity in the S1 subfragment . |
| 16 | The direct standardisation method was used to correct for inadvertent imbalance of risk factors between the three treatment groups ( see below ) . |
| 17 | Spearman 's rank correlation was used to look for any relation between oxygen saturation and incidence of arrhythmias . |