Example sentences of "be used for [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 2 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 3 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 4 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 5 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 6 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 7 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 8 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 9 | The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ . |
| 10 | Do you think that your discovery is enhanced , if the new knowledge can be used for good of mankind , or do you think that acquiring new knowledge is just enough on it 's own . |
| 11 | If you wish to investigate other options , then please read Appendix B , in which the requirements of the VMS accounts to be used for each of the LIFESPAN activities are detailed , enabling you to make your own decisions about which new accounts to set up , if any . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if several similar tables are to be compared , the same format must naturally be used for all of them . |
| 13 | No , no compensation as such , there are opportunities occasionally for landowners to ask that er one of the houses might for example be used for one of their own workers er when that worker retires , that type of thing . |
| 14 | Closed-circuit televisions are now being used for those with a little sight left . |
| 15 | Firstly , in the 1970s and '80s ad hoc epidemiological studies were used for all of the common ( >=1/10000); and most of the moderately common congenital abnormalities . |
| 16 | A three point scale was used for each of the 12 self esteem items . |
| 17 | Although span wire overhead construction was used for most of the route , bracket suspension , using peculiar curved bracket arms , was used in Northcote Road and on the approaches to Goat House Bridge . |