Example sentences of "used [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of curing pain with a lump of rock may sound crazy , but precious gems have been used for healing since ancient times , and many people believe that they are just as effective today |
| 2 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Rollers are used for consolidation of the surface to conserve moisture and press seeds into contact with the soil . |
| 4 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 5 | Activated charcoal is a non-specific adsorbent used for treatment of most ingested poisons and for haemofiltration for endotoxaemia . |
| 6 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 7 | The report also mentioned contamination problems during the manufacture of the anti-allergic eye product Opticrom and suggests that ‘ beer kegs ’ were used for storage during the manufacture of Imferon , an injectable iron . |
| 8 | Sometimes enzymes used for degradation of a target contaminant are not induced by the presence of the pollutant , either because the concentration is too low or because of the xenobiotic nature of the compound . |
| 9 | The same technique can be used for foot in foot the bill and red in red hair , although perhaps marginally less convincingly . |
| 10 | In the quadruple expression vector that made the 4 structural proteins of BTV , the weaker site was used for expression of VP3 , since the molar proportion of VP3 in VLPs is much less than the other three major proteins of BTV ( 27 , 28 ) . |
| 11 | The stock market also provides a price guide to the value of a company that can be used for transferral of ownership in the form of a takeover . |
| 12 | I APPLAUD the excellent article by Raymond Crisp ( Echo March 16 ) about Dr Robert Sharpe 's wonderful idea to stop animals being used for vivisection by issuing Humane Research donor cards — to humans . |
| 13 | The pellet was then gentle resuspended in 10 ml homogenising medium and used for incubation with ethanol , acetaldehyde , or cholesteryl oleate . |
| 14 | As for its liaison with IBM , Barclays claims it only has nine RS/6000s , which have been used for evaluation as part of its open systems strategy . |
| 15 | The railway line ran between various buildings and a high wooden fence that was used for part of its length for advertisement hoardings . |
| 16 | The Royal Yacht Britannia will be used for part of the tour and also to host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 17 | It was the so-called Gilchrist-Thomas process that enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making by removing its impurities with the addition of lime . |
| 18 | A 1.4 kb cDNA fragment of hSSRP1 denoted λPt2 ( 10 ) was used for hybridization at low stringency . |
| 19 | The same filter was used for hybridization with the riboprobe transcribed from HE 143 probe by T7 polymerase ( Figure 5A ) or for hybridization with the ND4 probe ( Figure 5B ) . |
| 20 | The Spearman rank order correlation coefficient , r s , was used for correlation between PEG absorption and endoscopic and histological data . |
| 21 | This was the cockpit , used for cock-fighting in times past . |
| 22 | In acute admission wards , plastic disposal bags may be used for self-abuse by suicidal patients . |
| 23 | There is cyanide in that pit and there is also the lake which is used for effluent of lead , zinc and cyanide . |
| 24 | A process essentially the same as this was used for brass-making in Europe until the nineteenth century , when it became more economical to alloy metallic zinc directly with copper . |
| 25 | The XView toolkit was used for development of the graphics-based applications running under the X Window System . |
| 26 | At the left hand side of the fascia is a combined twist control for the main oven light , and push button for the mains spark which is used for ignition throughout the cooker . |
| 27 | Below-the-line advertising , the term generally used for merchandising in stores including in-store promotions , is another case in point . |
| 28 | The Main Hall was used for assembly in the mornings , for Drama productions , and career evenings and also parent evenings . |
| 29 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 30 | Special air-drying techniques using extended room temperature hypotonic treatments , or shorter hypotonic treatments at higher temperatures , have been devised for the production of extended pachytene chromosomes which can be used for mapping of individual bivalents ( 10–13 ) . |