Example sentences of "be use [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United States officials claimed that most of the nuclear-related technology that Iran was seeking to obtain from China , Brazil and elsewhere could be used equally for nuclear weapons or civilian uses . |
| 2 | Such a procedure could be used even for these words . |
| 3 | Can themes be enlarged upon and can they be used again for further work ? 18 What are the illustrations like ? |
| 4 | It contains a wide variety of stimulating material to be used both for intensive viewing and for extension activities that develop the language areas covered by the video . |
| 5 | Classrooms as such tended to disappear ; they were replaced by areas and bays which could be used both for informal workshops and for formal teaching . |
| 6 | This was possible because the topmost floor of the two-and-a-half storey building is entirely in the roof space , obtains all its daylight from a new roof-light and therefore can not be used easily for habitable accommodation . |
| 7 | The funds set aside in this way will be used exclusively for departmental and central university libraries . |
| 8 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 9 | CL can not be used alone for other than general interpretations of cement histories . |
| 10 | The university has made clear that any funds raised from a sale will be used only for that purpose and not to clear its accumulated deficit , as originally intended . |
| 11 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 12 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 13 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 14 | Accordingly I am invoicing you for £75 ( and CNRS separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separably and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract . |
| 15 | Accordingly , I am invoicing you for £75 ( and Vassar separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separately and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract , a copy of which is attached . |
| 16 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 17 | With translucent or transparent rocks , the depth of field of low power zoom binocular microscopes can be used advantageously for three-dimensional study of included bioclasts and replacement fabrics in cherts , and orientation of fluid and crystal inclusions in evaporites . |
| 18 | There were no plans to take organs from primates but it was likely that certain species would be genetically engineered to be used specifically for human transplant . |
| 19 | For example , Goody and others have argued that the labelling of pre-colonial West African states as ‘ feudal ’ has obscured the all-important fact that the control of the ruling class did not operate through the control of land , and that therefore Marx 's ideas can not be used directly for these societies . |
| 20 | In less than two years the packs could be used routinely for all children in local authority care . |