Example sentences of "[prep] be used as " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the MEDIA projects are run on the basis of offering limited seed money to be used as a means of attracting further funding . |
| 2 | This trend is further displayed in their growing tendency to agree to be used as a pseudo-military arm of government in its socio-economic and industrial/political disputes with whole sections of society . |
| 3 | Finally , much extra information is being recorded , such as provenance , cultural associations and so on , which will allow the database to be used as a powerful research tool . |
| 4 | They had allowed their house to be used as a location for Howard 's End , Ismail Merchant 's and James Ivory 's film of E M Forster 's novel , which will be released in Britain at the end of this month . |
| 5 | A fourth option — only to be used as a desperate measure — is to take a loan usually as a second charge on the family home . |
| 6 | My visit in February ( a report is forthcoming ) showed me that Northern Spain is at an excellent stage of development to be used as a test bed for software . |
| 7 | Later , Miss Twelves moved to Keswick and the Ruskin Linen Industry was formed and earned considerable fame , Ruskin allowing his name to be used as a trade mark . |
| 8 | The association provided flats for young couples who after two years were given a return of half the rent they had paid to be used as a deposit on the purchase of a house . |
| 9 | If they are to be used as efficiency indicators budgets should never be used as a means of containing or reducing expenditure by freezing levels or imposing artificial or arbitrary cuts . |
| 10 | There were small clumps of purple china roses in the continental style , heavy and sharp enough to be used as weapons ; wreaths of laurel , and hellebore flowers in white plastic with glittered stamens . |
| 11 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 12 | Henry I , her father , had ordered her back home to be used as a dynastic pawn . |
| 13 | For a few moments , I wondered if the sand and shingle had been brought from the coast to be used as a road surface , then I doubted my sanity in thinking that anyone would bring sand to the Sahara . |
| 14 | I can tell you one thing , I wo n't be here to be used as a buffer . |
| 15 | From the approximately 3 billion cubic feet per day of sour gas produced , the MGS can make 375 million cubic feet per day of ethane to be used as feedstock for petrochemical projects , 2 billion cubic feet per day of methane for fertilizer and methanol plants as well as fuel for basic industries , power generation and water desalination , 350,000 b/d of natural gas liquids ( NGL ) and 3,700 tonnes per day of sulphur . |
| 16 | This will allow it to be used as a link between the Petersfield-Liphook bypass currently under construction and the A325 north of Greatham . |
| 17 | It is the right of slaves to be free , their right not to be treated as another 's property , their right not to be used as a mere means to another 's end — it is these basic moral rights that a system of chattel slavery systematically violates , not the principle that we must count equal interests equally . |
| 18 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 19 | In order to enable the JPR to result in action and development , and for it to be used as a basis for discussion the following year , the interview is often summarised and stored in the worker 's personal records . |
| 20 | It is important to remember that logical consequences are never to be used as an idle threat . |
| 21 | Cognitive aspects of spatial perception place constraints on the definition of a spatial language intended to be used as part of a user dialogue with the computer . |
| 22 | According to Berke and Stubbs ( 1989 ) a DSS can often be conceptualized as a tool to be used as part of an interactive learning process allowing the user to undertake ‘ what if ’ analyses and view the consequences of such alternatives . |
| 23 | It is equally possible for the National Curriculum to be used as an instrument for managerial convenience and prejudice . |
| 24 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 25 | It is therefore arguable that the tendency towards singular reference with the mixed-descriptions is at least in part due to a strong tendency for named characters to be used as thematic subjects or main characters in continuations , although there is a small first-mention effect . |
| 26 | Unlike SPAR , CLE-I is not self-contained , but is designed to be used as a major component of interactive systems such as interfaces to database management systems and diagnostic expert systems . |
| 27 | These are compiled from the human-readable form in which they are written to an internal form , allowing Prolog unification to be used as the mechanism for passing information and rule application in each of morphology , parsing , interpretation , and selection filtering . |
| 28 | Like all other words , like the word ‘ jargon ’ itself , the technical terms are changed with use : corrupted , as they are used more and more cavalierly : enriched , as their origins are taken more and more for granted and they begin to be used as metaphors . |
| 29 | Measurements are ‘ objective ’ inasmuch as scientists agree on the thumb to be used as the ruler . |
| 30 | In this way , we see that before the brain can be used as an instrument for ACTION , it first has to be used as an instrument for INACTION . |