Example sentences of "[noun] [be] use [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can a row about the endless Saturday afternoons he now spends bent over the bonnet of his old car be used as a vehicle for their underlying struggle ? |
| 2 | This book is not a text in method and neither will its empirical core be used as a peg for methodological debates . |
| 3 | Nor should remedial discretion be used as a way of discouraging applications for judicial review in order to reduce the Crown Office List to manageable proportions . |
| 4 | Could comics be used as a vehicle to present science attractively once again ? |
| 5 | The king 's " boys " were trained for war , and could in the last resort be used as a sort of flying squad to coerce a recalcitrant local potens on his home-ground . |
| 6 | Under no circumstances should ordinary AC mains transformers be used with a 12v DC car battery , as the circuit will not work , and damage is likely to occur . |