Example sentences of "be [adv] used for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terminals and wires are widely used for power transfer by nearly all manufacturers . |
| 2 | As econometric models are widely used for policy evaluation and forecasting the economy 's performance , it is important that their construction should be well founded . |
| 3 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 4 | Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting , with bristle mainly for oils . |
| 5 | Palm trees are mostly used for decoration there , but they are very important . |
| 6 | They are best used for cocktail savouries , but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce . |
| 7 | Liquid colours are best used for painting and tinting , and where colours need to be paler . |
| 8 | The first-stage trees are largely used for pulp , while the second-stage ones are the bulk of the tropical timber industry . |
| 9 | Dr John Watson , of the university 's department of engineering , said : ’ Carbon dioxide lasers are already used for welding and cutting , primarily in the aerospace and motor industries . |
| 10 | Of course , such fine detail is seldom required and coarse groupings are usually used for summary , but even these are sometimes disturbed by coding changes . |
| 11 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 12 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 13 | Transformational grammars are inherently used for sentence generation not analysis . |
| 14 | The best-quality oats are also used for breakfast foods and oatcakes . |
| 15 | Targets are also used for feedback purposes . |
| 16 | The enormous stocks of methane under the North sea are mainly used for fuel — natural gas . |
| 17 | They are often used for painting beams and ornamental metal work . |
| 18 | Rustic timbers are often used for construction but remember that they have a comparatively short life . |
| 19 | As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Spanish Hall and the Rudolf Picture Gallery are now used for state receptions . |
| 22 | In addition , it is worth noting that Markowitz has argued that the inconclusive nature of the empirical research does not mean that the CAPM can not be sensibly used for portfolio analysis and assessment . |
| 23 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 24 | In many cases they already pay out too much in dividends , money which would be better used for investment or at least retained in the business for some useful purpose . |
| 25 | Coal will be the primary source of electricity generation within the region though in Malaysia and Thailand gas will be significantly used for electricity generation since this represents a more cost effective option than importing coal and exporting LNG . |
| 26 | Radial circuits are sometimes used for socket outlets , where installing a ring circuit would waste cable . |
| 27 | This was at a time when cylinders were only used for dictation purposes , not for recording music , and a speed of about 100 revolutions per minute was found adequate . |
| 28 | Single digits and occasionally letters were also used for selection . |
| 29 | The galleries of Cumbria , so frequently referred to as ‘ Spinning Galleries ’ , could better be called ‘ Wool Galleries ’ , for they were mainly used for fleece , wool , yarn and cloth in many stages of storing , preparation and drying . |
| 30 | The internal ATG triplets were indeed used for translation initiation in a 5' deletion mutant , where 650 bp including the first ATG codon used for N-Oct 3 translation are missing . |