Example sentences of "[adv] [been] use as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 2 | A derivative of cellulose , one of the substances present in dietary fibre , has long been used as a ‘ slimming aid ’ for this reason . |
| 3 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 4 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 5 | Alcohol has long been used as a fuel-in spirit lamps and as methylated spirits , for example . |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 7 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 8 | Expressing the view of some delegates that the conference had merely been used as a forum to air US views , Brice Lalonde , the French Secretary of State for the Environment , said afterwards : " We have the feeling we were just invited to listen . " |
| 9 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 10 | ‘ And Sabine has not been used as a de Rochefort name for several generations . |
| 11 | The Dundalk complex , situated on Gallow 's Hill , has not been used as a jail since 1931 . |
| 12 | Although all three techniques have been used in the past , they have not been used as the prime form of monetary policy . |
| 13 | Previously analysed texts have already been used as a source of statistical information to enable parts of speech to be identified in a text on the basis of the likelihood of particular sequences ( for example , the word after the is nearly always a noun ) . |
| 14 | As Stoker argues above , contracting out has largely been used as a threat to achieve other forms of change , often by senior bureaucrats to gain concessions from and changes in work practices by staff at lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 15 | The house , Carpendens Court , dated from the time of Charles I ; it had lately been used as a nursing home and was in sad disrepair . |
| 16 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 17 | Weisstein declares that ‘ biology has always been used as a curse against women ’ ( quoted in Halpern 1986 : 1015 ) . |
| 18 | He carried a most unusual weapon at all times , namely a large white bone which , he proclaimed , had once been used as an item of warfare in the island of Otaheite . |
| 19 | Originally a tearoom and a sweet shop , it has also been used as a billiard hall and a printers ' shop . |
| 20 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 21 | The trees bearing Cox 's Orange Pippins are vigorous enough to be favourites for orchards in Britain and several other countries with a similar climate , and it has also been used as a parent in breeding a number of other varieties which share some of its desirable characteristics . |
| 22 | If a clone has also been used as a probe then the program also checks if the probe and clone are assigned to the same contig . |
| 23 | Designers ' Saturday has traditionally been used as a launching pad for designs and this year is no exception . |
| 24 | The rest of this chapter will be concerned with developing one particular model , known as the income — expenditure model , which has frequently been used as a basis for explaining the operation of fiscal policy . |
| 25 | This sentence has frequently been used as a stick with which to beat Eliot , generally to prove that his attitudes towards fascism were ambiguous at best . |
| 26 | In addition to fiscal measures , price controls have sometimes been used as a weapon . |
| 27 | Second , mortality rates have sometimes been used as a proxy for morbidity rates . |
| 28 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 29 | The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him . |
| 30 | But its buildings have more recently been used as an exhibition hall and classrooms by the North East Wales Institute 's College of Art ( NEWI ) . |