Example sentences of "been used as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , this apparent similarity of method has been used as the basis for attempts , tentative and unlikely as they are , to find a rapprochement between Marxism and deconstruction . |
| 2 | Designers ' Saturday has traditionally been used as a launching pad for designs and this year is no exception . |
| 3 | Through the ages these western seaways have been used as a highway by settlers and saints , pilgrims and pirates and traders and travellers . |
| 4 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 5 | But , if units of metal have been used as monetary values and in monetary transactions , what is the difference between a coin and a lump of metal ? |
| 6 | The cubeoctahedron , dodecahedron , icosahedron and various other semi and demi-regular solids have been used as models for geodesic domes . |
| 7 | He illustrated this by describing how alkaloids had been used as poisons since Roman times ( murder ) , through the discovery of the pain killing effects of morphine ( medicine ) and finally the hallucinogenic activity of LSD ( magic ) . |
| 8 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |
| 9 | Vai is a recognised beauty spot and has been used as a film location . |
| 10 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |
| 11 | Give them a good shake , in case an interesting piece of paper has been used as a bookmark . |
| 12 | Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object . |
| 13 | Since 1936 the Hall of Mirrors has been used as a concert hall . |
| 14 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |
| 15 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 16 | The Thornton Gate Mineral sidings , which since 1963 have been used as a rail store , showing car 170 towing a train of rail bogies . |
| 17 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 18 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 19 | The recommendations of the Working Party have been used as the basis for financial allocations to the Health Service regions since 1977 . |
| 20 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 21 | Skeletal element proportions based on total numbers of bones have been used as the basis for Fig. 3.1 comparing two kestrel samples with four barn owl samples . |
| 22 | As Stoker argues above , contracting out has largely been used as a threat to achieve other forms of change , often by senior bureaucrats to gain concessions from and changes in work practices by staff at lower levels of the hierarchy . |
| 23 | This has been used as an agenda item by the partnership , through which student participation has been encouraged as indeed the pupil setting and review of progress within the RAE provides further stimulus to effective student involvement . |
| 24 | Traditionally , the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters . |
| 25 | In more recent times dodder vines have been used as ‘ bridges ’ to transmit certain types of viruses from one host plant to another , so rapidly spreading the infections . |
| 26 | Indeed , Crone said in his report that ‘ … the examination of these fake specimens shed no light at all on the main question as to whether mycotoxins have been used as warfare agents in Laos or Kampuchea ’ . |
| 27 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 28 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 30 | The Mountie said grudgingly that a blood-covered rolled-up sheet of plastic had been found on the track near the area where Angelica must have been battered , and it could have been used as a poncho , and it was being investigated for blood type and fingerprints . |