Example sentences of "were used for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 2 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 3 | Two crystals were used for the complete dataset , collected as 1.8° oscillations with crystallographic c -axis roughly aligned along the rotation axis . |
| 4 | Carpets with borders were custom made for the large public areas and standard ranges were used for the 72 bedrooms . |
| 5 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 6 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 7 | The serum samples from patients with high cytotoxic activity were used for the subsequent ADCC assay . |
| 8 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 9 | Solutions ( 1 mM ) of olsalazine and colchicine ( 10 - 7 M ) were used for the same reason . |
| 10 | EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical . |
| 11 | Double-deckers were used for the maximum impact , including the historic Dreadnought , in 1964 . |