Example sentences of "used [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the adjoining terraces , they have never previously been used for an art exhibition , although Californian conceptual artist , Peter Erskine , placed a helioscope at the centre of his recent installation , ‘ Secrets of the Sun ’ ( to 10 May ) . |
| 2 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 3 | The episode raises the question of whether she actually knew who Mapplethorpe was when she agreed to the V&A being used for an Aids fund-raising event , at which there was to be a slide show of the photographs in the book . |
| 4 | The prefix hypo- is used for an ion with an element in a very low oxidation state and the prefix per- for an ion with an element in a high oxidation state . |
| 5 | could be used for an essay which is an answer to the question Assess the contribution made by Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man to the development of African-American fiction . |
| 6 | It must also be taken into consideration that the generative system is being used for an application alien to its originally design . |
| 7 | Principal auditors will have to consider the professional competence of other auditors used during an audit , under one of the second tranche of audit standard revisions issued for public comment by the Auditing Practices Board . |
| 8 | Such equipment and materials being used as an accompaniment to or in educational processes . |
| 9 | Kemble is being used as an army dump but most of its five hundred and thirty six acres are now unused . |
| 10 | Corporate Wedgwood has also received the first order for its new Caspian pattern for Amberley Castle , Arundel — the only 900-year-old castle in the world which is used as an hotel . |
| 11 | It can be used as an incisor ; a grounder ; skew chisel ; it can do some modelling , cleaning corners , curved ‘ V ’ cuts that twist and turn , has the tight size and bend to enable good control regardless of grain , and gets the blue ribbon . |
| 12 | Terra fullonica ( montmorillonite : hydrated aluminium silicate and calcium carbonate ) is used as an adsorbent in toiletries , in industry and for paraquat poisoning . |
| 13 | The 144 cells are now used as an overspill for Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 14 | Alternatively , subjects can be invited to write continuation sentences after a sentence of interest , and the incidence of plural or singular anaphoric pronouns in the continuations can be used as an index of preference . |
| 15 | To account for overall size differences between specimens , relative tail length ( mean length of left and right longest tail feathers/body length ) was calculated , and the ratio of the mean relative tail length of males to that of females then used as an index of sexual dimorphism in tail length . |
| 16 | The integrated counts accumulated were used as an index of rCBF . |
| 17 | The suggestion was discussed in Chapter 2 that the manner in which a pen is held in the hand during writing may be used as an index of speech lateralisation . |
| 18 | Third , work absenteeism on account of illness has been used as an index of morbidity . |
| 19 | The influence of these latter , " exogenous " factors is so important that , for this reason , the level of infant mortality is often used as an index of development . |
| 20 | This checklist may be used as an index for a share valuation permanent file . |
| 21 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
| 22 | Our only worry is that this re-organisation might be used as an opportunity to cut funds to the police . |
| 23 | As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service . |
| 24 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
| 25 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 26 | This can also be used as an opportunity to discuss the relative cost of long-term and short-term debt finance . |
| 27 | The " crisis " was also used as an opportunity to bring the education and training of nurses in line with the demands of the twenty-first century , acknowledging some of the trends discussed earlier in the chapter . |
| 28 | It was noted that the union 's actin over the redundancy issue should be used as an opportunity to push recruitment . |
| 29 | During the second war , the whistle was used as an air raid warning . |
| 30 | Bores Hole was used as an air raid shelter , or rather the tunnel that led under the road was , and many tales could be told of nights spent under there during the air raids . |