Example sentences of "being used as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals . |
| 2 | Preoccupation with the squad was being used as a propaganda ramp for the IRA . |
| 3 | Average milk yields of 6,000–6,500 litres per lactation were common with fairly detailed recording being used as a management aid at two of the farms . |
| 4 | As has been implied , the motivation of the regionalist novelists was often extra-literary , the novel being used as a vehicle to draw a particular situation to the eyes of the world , to influence public opinion and , thereby , to bring about social change . |
| 5 | LIPHOOK Civil Service Retirement Fellowship met on election day at the village hall as their usual venue at Liphook Church Centre was being used as a polling station . |
| 6 | Currently in the nursing field , computers are being used as a medium for communicating in nursing practice , education , management and research . |
| 7 | Toward the end of the year , we were given a holiday on a Thursday because the school was being used as a polling station for the General Election . |
| 8 | Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test . |
| 9 | Now the premises are being used as a Community Centre and small workshops . |
| 10 | The extent to which land has and is being used as a long-term security by pension funds and by finance houses , and the entry of foreign buyers into the land ; market , are dealt with anecdotally . |
| 11 | Here the cat is being used as a symbol of sexual attraction . |
| 12 | When , as it were , it is flaunted as The Problem , it is more often being used as a defence against a deeper , underlying one . |
| 13 | We consider this comment to be without foundation and should point out that as a condition of the land being used as a permanent site for our mobile home , we have had to plant over 100 conifers , together with shrubs and rose bushes . |
| 14 | The injection is not a conventional vaccine as it treats the infection rather than being used as a preventive measure . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Ceauşescu became convinced , in common with other East European states in hock to Western bankers , that credit was being used as a political weapon and that Reagan intended to finance his rearmament through the interest due on their loans . |
| 16 | ‘ When sound came in , in 1928 , Keaton had signed to MGM and began being used as a vehicle for really average production-line gags . |
| 17 | It had been successful up to the 1960s , but had latterly declined to being used as a bingo hall . |
| 18 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |
| 19 | She had already obtained a legal separation from her mother , claiming she was being used as a nursemaid for the baby in the family . |
| 20 | The phrase X is reinforced by Y … is being used as a cover term for ‘ X wants Y ’ , ‘ X likes Y ’ , ‘ X wishes that Y were the case ’ , etc … . |
| 21 | An orange box was obviously being used as a replacement for the missing leg as well as serving as a miniature bookcase , for there were seven tattered books on the dividing shelf and a stack of old newspapers below it . |
| 22 | Director of social work Ian Baillie claimed the Kirk was being used as a ‘ punchball ’ between central and local government . |
| 23 | In his view Tom was being used as a pawn in the relationship between his parents and unless his parents did come to an arrangement whereby ‘ a more stable home situation ’ was provided , Tom would benefit from a residential school placement . |
| 24 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 25 | The dose should be calculated on an individual basis , with age , body weight , and renal function being used as a guide . |
| 26 | His remarks were made when one of the locations used to store a unique collection of German literature taken from Germany in 1945 was recently handed back to the Orthodox Church , after four decades of being used as a store for the collection . |
| 27 | Before long he is involved , through loyalty to a Spanish relative , in the vexed affairs of old Don Baltasar , whose seaboard estate is being used as a refuge for pirates secretly commanded by James O'Brien , a villain with a front as a respected official in the Jamaican government . |
| 28 | In other words , women 's caring responsibilities are being used as a ground for excluding them from benefits . |
| 29 | The debates about the relationship between length of stay and readmission have served to highlight the potential of readmission rates being used as a surrogate measure of outcome after hospital care . |
| 30 | Community care is being used as a euphemism for family care and it seems unlikely that recent policy developments will alter the basic pattern . |