Example sentences of "as [vb -s] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 2 | At present the country 's exports of these metals are small but the volume could be stepped up as uses for the materials grow . |
| 3 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 4 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in the fourth century the Franks were also in close contact with the Romans , as allies and as recruits for the imperial forces . |
| 6 | A number of principles , notably that of collective responsibility , have been set out as signposts for the continuing evaluation of services for the under-fives . |
| 7 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 8 | Carter said , ‘ We 're using the other rooms as billets for the men . ’ |
| 9 | As hopes for the League disintegrated and the Peace Ballot consensus broke apart , those who followed the logic of collective security found themselves forced to unlearn many of the lessons of the First World War . |
| 10 | These requirements were specified as follows for the design of ‘ new ’ systems . |
| 11 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 12 | Five normal healthy men were selected as controls for the study . |