Example sentences of "used [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A modification of a previously described reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography technique was used for the analyses .
2 It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep .
3 This method is used for the reactions of metals and acids and the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide .
4 This second study differed only in that during initial training the subjects received conditioning trials with a different stimulus ( a light ) in the context that was to be used for the test .
5 It is instructive to begin with to compare the stones listed by the Greek naturalist and philosopher Theophrastus ( 373/ 368–c.287 B.C. ) , in so far as these can be certainly identified , with those used for the stamp seals of the Aegean world during the second millennium B.C. and the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia as far back as the fourth .
6 After all , the word ‘ engineer ’ used to be used for the person who could drive and maintain a car , in the early days of motoring .
7 The case used for the person or thing on which the action takes effect , eg I bought the car .
8 Moreover , 2.7 per cent of the deforested land is used for the cultivation , in small isolated tracts , of Cannabis sativa ( marijuana ) which is considerably lucrative although illegal .
9 Red-faced check-in staff were forced to explain to the frustrated passengers that engineers at Glasgow Airport had forgotten to replace the seats in the Twin Otter aircraft used for the inter-islands service .
10 This option can be used to draw any design , but should not necessarily be used for the knitting .
11 Increase is by division in spring , and seed sown at the same time can be used for the species .
12 The internal courier system was used for the return of questionnaires which , although anonymous , were coded by subdivision ( the key to the code known only by the author ) so reminders and thank you letters could be sent .
13 L some of that land is at the present time is used for the golf course , there was an impact of all those routes on on the golf course .
14 The tension is going to be different too , because the specific gravity of the steel used for the core is higher than the alloy you use for the wrap .
15 Room 006 is to be used for the MSc students , with Room 33 being converted as a Laboratory .
16 Private money is to be used for the funding of all the projects and considerable effort is to be placed on greater fund-raising and promotion over the period .
17 Experiments with ‘ hard ’ radiation such as gamma irradiation have been conducted and this method is occasionally used for the packaging of some high risk foods .
18 These details are often called ‘ classificatory data ’ since they are frequently used for the classification of other questions .
19 Fine grape alcohol from Portugal , France and some Eastern Block countries is used for the fortification .
20 The evaluation was carried out in order to provide information for a decision as to whether or not this type of material could be used for the user instruction programme at Chalmers University Library .
21 Besides , primaries used for the selection and ranking of persons proposed for inclusion in party lists would be open to much the same objections as were raised earlier in these pages against choice by the electorate at large among candidates who actually figure in those lists .
22 The criteria used for the selection of suitable shares are as follows :
23 Changed circumstances began to alter the criteria which were used for the selection and appointment of heads .
24 On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars .
25 Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward .
26 Wherever voters have indicated a further preference , transfers will be made in accordance with the same formula as is used for the transfer of a primary surplus : the surplus is divided by the number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each continuing candidate 's sub.parcel .
27 Bloch 's work ( 1975 ) on political language and oratory , as we saw above ( p. 41 ) , provides evidence of ways in which speech is formalised in non-literate and in literate societies alike and is used for the functions which Goody attributes to writing alone .
28 A PAGEANT WAGON USED FOR THE STAGING OF THE YORK MYSTERY PLAYS ( Page 73 )
29 SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself .
30 The house was used for the making of cloth until well into the seventeenth century .
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