Example sentences of "[verb] been use as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs .
2 The convent , built between 1868 and 1907 has been used as a school , orphanage and convalescent home , but is in a derelict state and in full view of the main A55 Expressway into Wales .
3 Finally , a pleasantly-grained veneer of dark ash has been used as a finish on the front and back of the headstock .
4 He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog .
5 In what follows , the branch or sector has been used as a category in the first classification of father 's occupations , with skill as a secondary and more arguable subdivision .
6 A particular place in the fence has been used as a route to cross the railway .
7 ( Note that in chord 1 a tritone has been used as a consonance .
8 Birth weight has been used as a measure of fetal growth but it is strongly dependent on gestational age .
9 Since 1955 it has been used as a museum and now houses many of the best religious paintings , sculptures and vestments from the island 's churches , including several fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish works , said to have been obtained in exchange for sugar shipped from Funchal .
10 Vai is a recognised beauty spot and has been used as a film location .
11 The income — expenditure model has been used as a framework for justifying this role for fiscal policy because government expenditure and taxation directly , and fairly reliably , influence national income levels .
12 Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust .
13 Sweat regulation has been used as a test of autonomic nervous system function in diabetics since 1942 .
14 Many possible measures might be used ( Brown and Yule , 1983 ) , but following Garvey 's lead with younger children ( Garvey , 1979 ) , the distribution and pattern of clarification requests has been used as a starting point .
15 Rather , it has been used as a retardant of the progression of AIDS , largely on the basis that it seems to sustain the subpopulation of T cells that appears especially vulnerable to HIV in the overt stage of the disease .
16 Too often it has been used as a weapon of oppression .
17 He concludes with this paragraph : If religion throughout the ages , and certainly in many parts of the world today , has been used as a weapon for destructive purposes , are we not called to demonstrate that as people of faith we can both live in passionate commitment to our respective tradition and at the same time in compassionate respect for each other and to affirm that the faith commitment of each one is only truly realized when we live in that mutual respect accordingly ?
18 The track has been used as a walkway since the closure of the line and this use has been regularised by way of purchase by the local authorities .
19 Since 1936 the Hall of Mirrors has been used as a concert hall .
20 Peter Oteng , senior officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in Birmingham , said : ‘ For years the ape or monkey has been used as a form of abuse to black people .
21 There are educational approaches where it has been used as a method .
22 The bill of exchange has been used as a method of raising short term finance since the seventeenth century .
23 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 .
24 Charlotte Bronte 's ‘ going away ’ dress has been used as a basis for the women 's gowns and the men 's costumes made from contemporary illustrations .
25 Gilroy points out that rising street crime has been used as a justification for increased police militarisation , and blames this rise on the deviant activities of a minority of black youth .
26 The yacht has been used as a model upon which all the Northshore Yacht Yards ' Vancouver 28s are based , but they do differ slightly from the original yacht .
27 He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 .
28 Too often it has been used as a reward for political service .
29 This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly .
30 It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it .
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