Example sentences of "was used for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes without saying that a beautiful piano was used for the recording , and that Haefliger communicates and obvious sense of joy in performing . |
| 2 | Staphylococcus aureus protein A ( Sigma , St Louis , MO ) was used for the inhibition assay . |
| 3 | It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep . |
| 4 | For a time , Freames was used for the manufacture of chemicals and later became known as Crystal Fountain Mill , then for the production of shoddy and mattress stuffing up to at least the Second World War . |
| 5 | For a short period it was used for the manufacture of bedding materials and mattresses . |
| 6 | The South Mill was used for the manufacture of pins , under Daniel Foote Tayler , credited with the manufacture of some of the earliest solid-headed pins produced in Britain . |
| 7 | Although Reese manages to bomb the Terminator before himself dying after their final encounter in a factory — a rigid fibreglass replica was used for the explosion shot — the skeletal robot , minus both legs and one arm , still manages to pursue and finally catch Sarah . |
| 8 | Parsley was used for the liver problem and to help clear the system of toxins ( causing the yellow colour and a fading of the normal colour ) , mint to encourage appetite , fennel to clear any toxins in the digestive tract , elderflower to calm the fish down and garlic as an antibiotic in case the fish suffered a secondary infection due to its weakened state . |
| 9 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 10 | It became known as the Astral Works in 1887 , and was used for the generation of electricity . |
| 11 | The money was used for the purchase by the secretary of state of buildings of outstanding architectural or historic interest , together with their contents . |
| 12 | He told the jury : ‘ This courtroom was used for the trial of Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady . |
| 13 | The house was used for the making of cloth until well into the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | Water power was used for the powering of hammers and bellows . |
| 15 | Thus the same word — regnum — was used for the whole and for both larger and smaller parts . |
| 16 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |
| 17 | The internal courier system was used for the return of questionnaires which , although anonymous , were coded by subdivision ( the key to the code known only by the author ) so reminders and thank you letters could be sent . |
| 18 | This was used for the fitting of steel tyres to cartwheels . |
| 19 | This road , known as the Coal Road because it was used for the transport of coal from long-abandoned pits , discloses an aerial view of the hidden valley of Grisedale across the gulf of Garsdale . |
| 20 | A Zeiss epifluorescence microscope equipped with interference filters for fluorescein isothiocyanate was used for the examination . |
| 21 | Student 's t test for unpaired data was used for the group analysis . |
| 22 | The metal thimble was removed , the cannulae were disconnected , the pancreatic cannula was used to collect the pure pancreatic juice , and the duodenal cannula was used for the reinfusion of the juice ( diluted by saline 1:2 ) into the duodenum . |
| 23 | A duodenal cannula was used for the reinfusion of the collected pancreatic secretion ( diluted by saline 1:2 ) . |
| 24 | After his arrest , the vermilion red Metro car belonging to 51-year-old Michael Sams was used for the demonstration , which proved that the bin would fit into the back of the vehicle , still allowing the tail-gate to be shut . |
| 25 | A TECO Model 49 ultraviolet photometer was used for the ozone measurements . |
| 26 | A Makarov with silencer was used for the job and the body burnt . |
| 27 | Two shafts gave access to the colliery ; the main shaft was used for the transportation of men and materials , including the coal produced , while the other was maintained as an alternative or emergency route to the surface . |
| 28 | The second example of a map projection shows the same region ( Greenland , Baffin Island and Canada/Alaska ) as was used for the Mercator example ; in the present example the polar case of the Zenithal Equal-area projection is employed . |
| 29 | The recording system that was used for the baseline should be continued in exactly the same form . |
| 30 | The Corinithian Order was used for the propylon which had three entrances . |