Example sentences of "used [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results . |
| 2 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 3 | As a rule , he uses a pair of Marshall tops/cabs with either a Chandler Tube Driver or an Ibanez Tube Screamer , and a Cry Baby wah-wah used mostly for tonal coloration . |
| 4 | It provides a framework for modelling and understanding of the behaviour of complex social and business organisation and is being used widely for systematic problem-solving , organisational learning and business re-engineering in a variety of fields . |
| 5 | Yet the new royal style was initially used only for diplomatic relations with France : the old style was employed by some departments of English government until June 1260 . |
| 6 | Although the atmosphere , mmHg and torr are all used in scientific work , they should strictly be used only for rough comparisons or as ratios . |
| 7 | In late November , on the strength of this certificate — attesting to his own mental good health , and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes — Lepine went to Checkmate Sports , a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal , and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle , ammunition and a magazine clip . |
| 8 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 9 | Champagne is a designation used only for sparkling wine produced in the limited area of Northern France around the towns of Reims and Epernay . |
| 10 | According to Stephen Auditaire of the Fremont , California-based X Business Group , corporations are adopting X as a component of their PC integration strategy — and that wo n't necessarily affect X-terminal business , as PCs are normally used only for occasional access to corporate databases , not the constant heavy graphical use more suited to X-terminals . |
| 11 | In England , it would have been the parlour , and like the parlour , the salon was used only for entertaining visitors . |
| 12 | With translucent or transparent rocks , the depth of field of low power zoom binocular microscopes can be used advantageously for three-dimensional study of included bioclasts and replacement fabrics in cherts , and orientation of fluid and crystal inclusions in evaporites . |
| 13 | CL can not be used alone for other than general interpretations of cement histories . |
| 14 | However , it is used elsewhere for parliamentary elections only in Malta , Tasmania and Australia ( for the Senate ) , so that Ireland is obviously the most accessible and relevant source of evidence about its operation . |
| 15 | This was possible because the topmost floor of the two-and-a-half storey building is entirely in the roof space , obtains all its daylight from a new roof-light and therefore can not be used easily for habitable accommodation . |
| 16 | Currently , however , graduated assessment is being used more for formative purposes internal to a school where wrong decisions do not have such serious consequences . |
| 17 | Support for this assumption was obtained from a similar study in pigs that showed that amino acids derived from the extracellular space were used directly for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 18 | I discovered that the remedies were all prepared from wild flowers , plants and trees , that none were harmful and that they were not used directly for physical complaints , but for the sufferer 's negative feelings such as worry , apprehension , hopelessness , irritability etc . |
| 19 | This form of reciprocation is used both for legitimate and contemptuous offences . |
| 20 | The revenue from the ivory was used both for personal gain and as a means of channelling funds to the guerrillas . |
| 21 | The examples used should be realistic and relevant to the pupils concerned Emphasis should also be given to the way in which percentages are used both for comparative purposes in many everyday situations and also as a numerical measure based on a 100-point scale of reference . |
| 22 | It contains a wide variety of stimulating material to be used both for intensive viewing and for extension activities that develop the language areas covered by the video . |
| 23 | Classrooms as such tended to disappear ; they were replaced by areas and bays which could be used both for informal workshops and for formal teaching . |
| 24 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 25 | Some of the poorest public houses have been closed and some are used now for non-licensed purposes . |
| 26 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 27 | So it is used mainly for brief shots or parts of shots , or for very special effects — perhaps the most familiar being the laser swords in the Star Wars series . |
| 28 | This is another form of discounting which has traditionally [ although not exclusively ] been used mainly for large contracts with payment terms greater than 180 days . |
| 29 | But it is interesting that among the ‘ great issues of today and tomorrow ’ that he himself wrote as an agenda for Labour , prominence is given to one on equality : ‘ whether , as we grow richer , this new wealth is used exclusively for individual selfishness or for the growth of necessary community services , and whether , in consequence , we follow or escape the American precedent of great private affluence surrounding rotting public services ’ . |
| 30 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |