Example sentences of "was used for [adj] purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore said that the plutonium was used for civil purposes in the US . |
| 2 | Lime was used for agricultural purposes and for making cement . |
| 3 | Whether authentic or not , this material from Manetho and Hecataeus was used for mean purposes of reciprocal abuse . |
| 4 | Federal expenditure on administration was 48 billion dinars , and , apart from the grants to the republics and provinces of 60 billion dinars , only 19 billion dinars was used for other purposes . |
| 5 | A system of cross-references was used for this purpose , for example anthropophagy : see eucharist , altar , communion . |
| 6 | The large engine in the boat gallery was used for this purpose at the Liverpool Lighterage Company Yard in Northwich , Cheshire . |
| 7 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 8 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 9 | The program CASP was used for this purpose . |
| 10 | In the early 1820s the comparative material gathered from the United States by Liverpool abolitionists was used for parliamentary purposes . |
| 11 | Hawkhill Recreation Ground which was used for recreational purposes as long ago as 17th century ; |