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

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1 Ketotifen , a drug used for the prevention of asthma , was found to decrease significantly the extent and severity of experimental colitis in two rat models .
2 Between 1233 and 1238 he had charge of royal building work at the great hall of Winchester Castle , besides supervising the installation of windows and pavements at Clarendon Palace , helping to construct a tomb used for the burial of Queen Joan of Scotland [ q.v. ] , and being sent to direct the enclosure of an anchoress in Britford .
3 10.3 The Academic Parties shall , notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement , have a licence to use for the purpose of further internal research and teaching work all the foreground technical information that they themselves have generated together with such of the background and results as is communicated to them hereunder by the other Parties and is necessary for such use of their own result , but such use shall be in conformity with the confidentiality conditions of this Agreement .
4 Paradise was a word used for the Garden of Eden .
5 The programme was estimated to have cost around US$1,000 million per annum , a sum used for the upkeep of the two test atolls and for the funding of a support centre on Tahiti , 1,000 km to the west .
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