Example sentences of "use for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This may occur in the same physical configuration as that of Fig. 3.16 ( p. 81 ) used for calculating the torque upon a single turn of current-carrying wire .
2 The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up .
3 Therefore , the Fair Isle option is not only used for creating the design , it also controls the way in which the machine knits the fabric from the design .
4 The funds deposited with the EMCF can be used for supporting the currency grid of exchange rates between member countries as well as the provision of medium-term credit facilities .
5 Which would you choose ? ( 3 ) There is now a rumour that the family has another house , which may be used for organizing the syndicate , in addition to/ instead of the house you are observing , but you do n't know the location of the other house .
6 The kinds of structure drills used for mastering the grammar of a language are : substitution ( frame ) drills ( these are non-differential )
7 Underneath are the primary feathers which are harsher and used for steering ; the secondary feathers are on the top and used for catching the wind and for balance .
8 Annual sales statistics provided by Alko Ltd were used for evaluating the consumption of various alcoholic beverages in Finland between 1960–89 .
9 More than £5,000 was raised , and this will be used for planting the garden and park surrounding Ickworth 's rotunda .
10 They then draw off some of the horse 's blood , remove the serum containing the antibodies , return the blood to the horse , and these horses are used for producing the tetanus erm antibodies .
11 No formal procedure is used for monitoring the project , but the chief executive follows it with interest and talks informally with the project engineer from time to time .
12 There were the long-handled wooden shovels used for transferring the food into sacks , and at the end of the aisle there rose , like the bulk of a god 's statue in a temple , a wooden hopper , its side bound with bronze .
13 An examination of data from the Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) suggests that as many as ten measures could be used for estimating the size of public expenditure .
14 In fact , on a strictly unilateral model the exact figures used for estimating the EUL are immaterial .
15 Examples of this are the CLAWS system ( Garside , 1987 ) for tagging the LOB corpus and the PARTS tagger ( Church , 1988 ) which is being used for tagging the ACL/DCI corpus .
16 On the main bed , both the YC5 and YC6 colour changers can be used for knitting tuck and slip in stripes and the YC6 can be used for changing the background colour when knitting Fair Isle .
17 Next month : In next month 's Surgery we shall be describing a simple pulse repetition frequency comparator which can be used for synchronising the speed of two engines .
18 They can also be used for applying the egg white , if that is the method you decide to use .
19 The click paradigm can , of course , only be used for investigating the perception of spoken language .
20 Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community .
21 A calorimeter is an insulated vessel used for measuring the quantity of energy released or absorbed during a chemical or physical change .
22 There he invented the ‘ Dall tube ’ , a device still widely used for measuring the flow of water from reservoirs and in water mains .
23 This insert was cloned as a dimer within the Sma I site of the pUC19 polylinker and has previously been used for studying the effect of actinomycin on the structure of the surrounding blocks of A n .
24 Once the grill pan has been removed the grill compartment can be used for browning the top of deep dishes like shepherds pie or , when the grill 's off , for warming the plates using the heat rising from the oven .
25 Signet and secretary could be used for sending relatively informal letters to the King 's subjects or for activating other parts of the executive machine : the Signet Office was the instrument most often used for disseminating the King 's personal commands .
26 In this way the pattern of the air-jets used for cooling the glass can often be seen in car windscreens .
27 They were also used for timing the length of sailors ’ watches .
28 The second help screen partly overlays the first and shows a proposed convention for colour abbreviations which can be used for describing the lure type .
29 I will not dwell much longer on conformal mapping ( this is incidentally the term most often used for describing the method ) but will give a few more examples .
30 It was suggested that a flour-mill for the employment of the paupers should be created , the flour produced to be used for making the bread for the paupers in the workhouse , as well as for the several parishes in the union .
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