Example sentences of "use as [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The purpose of this study is to examine the handling of complaints made by individuals or organizations against government departments , using as examples H.M. Customs and Excise and the Immigration and Nationality Department .
2 Equation ( 2.2 ) in Table 2 reports the equivalent IV estimates for equation ( 2.1 ) with fitted values and lagged fitted values from ( 1.1 ) used as instruments for the expected return terms .
3 This method is best suited to materials that are of approximately equal thickness , and it works quite well with ‘ maiden cuttings ’ ( see page 99 ) used as rootstocks .
4 As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources .
5 As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children .
6 I ca n't remember which teacher it was referred to anything Orcadian we used as Orkneyisms .
7 It is also typically the case that the grammarian will have constructed the sentence or sentences he uses as examples .
8 The Milton multiband radiometer is a non-intrusive device which uses as sensors three silicon photodiodes and one cadmium-sulphide cell .
9 A design often found on enssi rugs , which were traditionally used as door-hangings in the nomad 's yurt ( tent ) ; it is quite common for any rug woven in this design to be referred to as an enssi , or a Bokhara with an enssi design .
10 A new system has been established to record the number of addresses in Darlington which are being used as houses in multiple occupation .
11 This room was used to grow fungi which were , in part , used as sources for creating poisons .
12 A more sinister development is the seepage of nitrate into aquifers which are used as sources of the domestic water supply .
13 Examples from schools who have acquired microcomputers for their libraries will be used as sources of inspiration rather than documents to be copied verbatim .
14 Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub .
15 All kinds of things can be used as reflectors : projection screens ; aluminium foil which has been crumpled , roughly straightened out and stuck onto a sheet of hardboard ; or purpose-made reflectors bought from photographic dealers .
16 Some attributes of God so express the heart of his divine nature that they are used as titles :
17 Of this , almost half is used as rangelands , for raising cattle and sheep ; a total area somewhat greater than India .
18 Many aquarium shops will sell these terrestrial plants but they are meant to be used as marginals outside the tank or in a paludarium .
19 These were often used as copies to illustrate the numerous different guide books that were being sold .
20 However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient .
21 The European Bleak was commonly used as scales are very reflective and pearlescent .
22 The normal background in a growth cabinet would be a combination of the light blue of the luncheon boxes normally used as containers for the plants and the reflecting ‘ Mylar ’ foil covering the walls .
23 The selected object is surrounded by a rectangle , which forms the background but does not necessarily have a border , and these tiles can then be arranged as required , used as fills or combined with the clipping function .
24 The High Court had allowed its interlocutory procedures to be used as devices for enabling the Government to postpone and to preview an entirely innocuous public-interest programme , in the absence of any concrete evidence that the broadcast would contravene the civil or criminal law .
25 It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade .
26 The rationale behind island-driving was the expectation that some words in the utterance would be pronounced sufficiently clearly to be recognised out of context , and could therefore be used as islands of comparative certainty from which to build an interpretation of the rest of the utterance .
27 Oil and gas , for example , can be used as fuels within the pyrolysis system , or for an adjacent plant such as a combined heat and power system .
28 Combustion : The alkanes burn and are used as fuels .
29 They are used as fuels or as raw materials for the manufacture of chemicals and fertilisers .
30 Both the parent and recombinant plasmid were then used as cofactors for the DNA-PK in in vitro kinase assays ( Figure 6A ) .
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