Sentence examples for was mined for from inspiring English sources

The site was mined for sand and gravel and backfilled by 10 m of mine spoils with 1 m of natural soil over the fill.

Except for a few early works in which recorded speech was mined for its rhythmic qualities, Steve Reich devoted himself to instrumental works until 1981, largely because he didn't want his musical line dictated by the text.

The impact is clear, though, above the city, on a mountaintop that once was mined for coal but is now home to a rehab center, run by Mountain Comprehensive Care, one of the town's largest employers.

The A. euteiches unigene collection was mined for putative RxLR effectors looking for matches either to a sequence pattern or to HMM profiles.

The mining tradition is celebrated at the Woodhorn Museum, where coal was mined for 80 years.

Chalk was mined for building stone and burnt to form lime to spread over clay soils to improve agricultural land.

His collection was mined for this exhibition and he will provide a stream of card lore while strolling through the show.

Five thousand years ago Pantelleria was mined for obsidian (volcanic glass) to make spears and knives, and our neolithic ancestors left some fascinating tombs.

Existing research and media coverage was mined for anecdotal evidence gathered from 50 academic papers and over 3,000 media articles spanning 40 years.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information's dbSNP was mined for polymorphisms located within the kallikrein (KLK) locus using custom-designed "ParSNPs" and "LocusAnnotator" software tools.

Gold was mined for centuries near Aroroy in the north; operations declined in the 1960s, but they resumed in 2007 on the remaining substantial reserves there.