Example sentences of "use as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level .
2 Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on .
3 But unions are for representing people properly , responsibly , not for using as some vehicle for your own political obsessions .
4 The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments .
5 Differentiating the factor market equations ( 7–25 ) , where , denote the proportion of total labour and capital used as fixed cost inputs ( and those in variable inputs ) .
6 We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages .
7 The second sample is a simple border produced from the holly and Teddy 's head used as continuous repeats .
8 5 ) The main priority was to develop databases which could be shared between members of the group and used as introductory material for school librarians who had newly acquired microcomputers .
9 Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books .
10 The sequence of the P4 exon used as reverse primer is highly conserved in human , mouse , and bovine cDNA ( 5 , 6 , 12 ) .
11 Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars .
12 Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets .
13 All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions .
14 There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones .
15 Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded .
16 People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away .
17 One can either directly estimate the value of all the final goods and services ( a variant would be to estimate what every branch of production adds to the value of the goods it uses as raw materials ) .
18 The daily and monthly Treasury bond indicators ( the BTN and BTNF ) which linked prices to inflation and were commonly used as economic indices were also abolished in a bid to restore the official currency , the cruzeiro , as the only mechanism for financial transactions .
19 All my examples run to quite high numbers , which suggests not only that they were a large early printing , but that they were used as ordinary day returns in later days .
20 Chicken and trout red blood cells were used as internal reference standards .
21 At one time , and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines .
22 It is difficult to gauge the extent to which cosmetics , leather working , paint and carving were used as surviving examples are rare or non-existent .
23 ‘ Each of my sisters — one of them without realising it — were used as emotional weapons against me to get what he wanted in the way of sex .
24 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 .
25 Leaving aside for the moment the question of informal import barriers , the restrictive practices used by larger manufacturers can be used as one explanation of the highly dispersed structure of distribution .
26 This explains the loss of tone in the neck muscles under the chin , used as one of the defining characteristics of REM sleep .
27 Paradoxically , we might note that these services were responsible for a major portion of expenditure of the Metropolitan Authorities and the rises in expenditure incurred through policy of central Government were used as one of the rationales for dismantling these Authorities .
28 Like many other information sources , break-even analysis should preferably be used as one of several devices for obtaining an accurate picture of the business .
29 The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export .
30 However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise …
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