Example sentences of "[conj] use [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi , or to use him as an alibi for themselves . |
| 2 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 3 | In the face of the fundamentalists ' electoral success , the FLN political bureau on June 17 issued a statement rejecting " all attempts to return Islam to the era of charlatanism and myths or to use it as an instrument of demagogy and political opportunism " . |
| 4 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |
| 5 | Rob Grunsell encourages teachers to adapt his materials to their own needs or use them as a source of ideas for devising their own training . |
| 6 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 7 | You can then either read it as a standard newspaper or use it as a database to search for particular articles . |
| 8 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 9 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 10 | They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release . |
| 11 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 12 | Thus , he or she will tend to resolve the crisis rather than use it as a lever towards treatment . |
| 13 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 14 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 15 | Child abuse is something no one would wish to endure , and using it as a sales/hype ploy is sick . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a nightmare , ’ Baldwin told G. M. Young , attributing the defeat exclusively to ‘ the pacifist ’ issue and using it as a reason for eschewing rearmament in the early days of Hitler . |
| 17 | Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club . |
| 18 | The plan for converting the large volumes of the mill interior into living accommodation involved retaining the entrance into the lean-to engine house and using it as the main entrance to the building . |
| 19 | The vulture is manipulating the stone and using it as an extension of its beak to crack the egg . |
| 20 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 21 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 22 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |
| 23 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 24 | He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 26 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 27 | The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages . |
| 28 | Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide . |
| 29 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |
| 30 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |