Example sentences of "as [noun sg] [noun pl] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electric cars have been with us as milk floats for many years . |
| 2 | They are experiments , for instance , that our undergraduates do in their first year here , tailored down very , very severely to act as demonstration experiments for these children . |
| 3 | Not the individual probes but the longest unique ‘ probe patterns ’ , containing several adjacent probes must be considered as neighbourhood elements for all such probe patterns . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc workstations will be used as reference platforms for all software developed by the Swiss Electronic Stock Exchange : the Association Tripartite Bourses — an association of Switzerland 's three stock exchanges — Basle , Geneva and Zurich — will use Sparcstations to develop a new trader 's interface . |
| 5 | Remember that textbooks serve as reference books for many years after you have " mastered " the subject . |
| 6 | Perhaps for this reason , BT is playing down the entertainment side , instead stressing other applications such as video databases for such sectors as estate agents . |
| 7 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |
| 8 | While that was a brilliant evocation of living by your wits in or near a New York gutter , which pushed out several boundaries — largely sexual — in relation to the old Hollywood code of conduct , there was a degree of tameness in comparison to the anti-heroes created in Easy Rider ; Fonda , Hopper and especially Nicholson were used as role models for many future films , and thus it broke new ground . |