Example sentences of "[noun] can be used as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Individual units can be used as supplementary material with other courses .
2 Desktop computers can be used as electronic mailboxes into which messages can be posted at a moment 's notice for a correspondent to return to .
3 In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex .
4 If the skull is extremely fragmentary , pieces of wood can be used as supporting props .
5 Both the heron and the geese can be used as separate border patterns .
6 Sometimes key changes can be used as formal divisions , as they help to give more definition to the beginning of new sections .
7 Even old brass curtain rings can be used as small circular frames , and I am sure that the more you look , the more the ideas that will come to mind .
8 It is suggested that spaces be used to split up UDC numbers so that the various parts of the numbers can be used as separate search terms ; also that punctuation marks be replaced with letters .
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