Example sentences of "are [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 | Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting , with bristle mainly for oils . |
| 4 | Palm trees are mostly used for decoration there , but they are very important . |
| 5 | They are best used for cocktail savouries , but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce . |
| 6 | Liquid colours are best used for painting and tinting , and where colours need to be paler . |
| 7 | The first-stage trees are largely used for pulp , while the second-stage ones are the bulk of the tropical timber industry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 11 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 12 | Transformational grammars are inherently used for sentence generation not analysis . |
| 13 | The best-quality oats are also used for breakfast foods and oatcakes . |
| 14 | Targets are also used for feedback purposes . |
| 15 | The enormous stocks of methane under the North sea are mainly used for fuel — natural gas . |
| 16 | They are often used for painting beams and ornamental metal work . |
| 17 | Rustic timbers are often used for construction but remember that they have a comparatively short life . |
| 18 | As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Spanish Hall and the Rudolf Picture Gallery are now used for state receptions . |
| 21 | Radial circuits are sometimes used for socket outlets , where installing a ring circuit would waste cable . |
| 22 | Many ranges like the Cuillin or Ben Nevis are barely used for sport . |
| 23 | Because they are commonly used for spray applications packaging frequently incorporates a spray device or a hand sprayer is supplied . |
| 24 | About the number of authors who write that ‘ the Champagne vineyards are confined to the belemnite-rich chalk and that the lower beds , where belemnites are lacking , produce inferior grapes which are never used for Champagne ’ , he comments : ‘ They infer that the Campanian has some special but undefined property which makes it superior for vine-growing . |