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 | Leaving aside for the moment the question of informal import barriers , the restrictive practices used by larger manufacturers can be used as one explanation of the highly dispersed structure of distribution . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the skull is extremely fragmentary , pieces of wood can be used as supporting props . |
| 6 | Both the heron and the geese can be used as separate border patterns . |
| 7 | Sometimes key changes can be used as formal divisions , as they help to give more definition to the beginning of new sections . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact culture can be used as another guise under which one group can hide to oppress the other . |