Example sentences of "are [adv] used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terminals and wires are widely used for power transfer by nearly all manufacturers . |
| 2 | Context-free grammars are widely used for specifying both formal and natural languages . |
| 3 | Linear dynamic models are widely used for economic forecasting and policy analysis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If your leg muscles are inadequately used for walking or running you will be prone to develop varicose veins . |
| 6 | Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting , with bristle mainly for oils . |
| 7 | Palm trees are mostly used for decoration there , but they are very important . |
| 8 | Peels are mostly used for limestones and calcite-cemented clastic rocks , although cherts and siliceous clastics can be successfully treated . |
| 9 | Cohort life tables are little used for humans because : |
| 10 | These days they are only used for ceremonial occasions . |
| 11 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 12 | They are best used for cocktail savouries , but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce . |
| 13 | Liquid colours are best used for painting and tinting , and where colours need to be paler . |
| 14 | The first-stage trees are largely used for pulp , while the second-stage ones are the bulk of the tropical timber industry . |
| 15 | Fumigants are generally used for non-selective treatment of confined areas such as greenhouses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 18 | In such conditions , where drug combinations are not used for an adequate length of time , resistant strains have every chance of profiting from the destruction of their more sensitive relatives , and establishing a reservoir of intractable organisms . |
| 19 | Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks . |
| 20 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 21 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 22 | Similarly credits earned on exchange or by credit transfer ( normally a maximum of four exchange credits are allowed ) are counted towards the number of credits required for an award but the marks are not used for the purposes of classification . |
| 23 | Although , computers are now widely and fruitfully used in classrooms throughout European schools , they are not used for the purposes commercial publishers expected . |
| 24 | But they have requested the two-storey shop units in Clark 's Yard are not used for the same type of shops already there , to prevent competition for existing business . |
| 25 | But CND says that its computers are just used for recording members — names and addresses and their subscription payments . |
| 26 | The most common opportunistic infections associated with AIDS is a type of pneumonia , called pneumocystic pneumonia , and Kaposi 's sarcoma. o There is nothing else to explain the suppression of the immune system , such as the use of drugs , such as steroids , that are deliberately used for their immunosuppressive effects . |
| 27 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 28 | As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers . |
| 29 | Solid fuel tablets or burning paste are usually used for pre-heating paraffin or petrol burners . |
| 30 | 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 . |