Example sentences of "were used for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changed circumstances began to alter the criteria which were used for the selection and appointment of heads . |
| 2 | For example , a historian will be interested in finding out what is written on a sheet of medieval vellum , whereas an archaeologist will want to know what animal skin was used , how the vellum was made , and what pigments were used for the ink . |
| 3 | Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World . |
| 4 | Cars 11 and 13 were used for the inspection which included braking tests on Anerley Hill . |
| 5 | Nos. 11 and 13 were used for the inspection of the Crystal Palace route and these cars took over the working of the Penge route as soon as the Corporation cars were withdrawn in June 1906 and in the same month , one of them was fitted with Raworth regenerative equipment for a demonstration on Anerley Hill for tramway engineers . |
| 6 | However , bistables based on individual transistors are sometimes used and valves were used for the purpose many years ago . |
| 7 | Various woods were used for the chair frames : oak , walnut , beech , mulberry , chestnut , and sometimes alder and lime . |
| 8 | Only first conceptions as a result of artificial insemination were used for the analysis . |
| 9 | Lambda vectors EMBL3 and EMBL4 ( Stratagene ) were used for the cloning of partial Sau 3AI and Eco RI digests of extranuclear DNA , enriched by CsCl centrifugation . |
| 10 | Male Wistar rats ( mean body weight 300 g ) , housed under conditions of constant temperature and 12 hour lighting cycle , were used for the study . |
| 11 | On archaeological sites , pits are frequently found that were used for the disposal of household refuse that would nowadays be put in a dustbin , collected by the municipal authorities , and taken to a communal rubbish tip . |
| 12 | After being washed with phosphate buffered saline ( PBS ) , the PBMCs from healthy controls were used for the ADCC assay as effector cells . |
| 13 | Thiobarbituric acid ( BDH Chemicals , Poole , England ) and 1,1,3,3-trimethoxypropane ( Tokyo Kasei Co , Tokyo ) were used for the TBA assay , and all other chemicals were of reagent grade . |