Example sentences of "[noun sg] use [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been reasonable for the Royal Mail to use their dismissals as an example of enforcement of the new rules . |
| 2 | All poisonous amphibia use their toxins as a means of self-defence and not to catch prey . |
| 3 | One engineer uses his truck as an illegal taxi , known as a ‘ proceso 500 , ’ and earns 80,000 Kwanza , To stem the flow of MPLA party workers , state employees , and professionals to the private sector and foreign aid groups , the government introduced a system of cards , lettered A , B or C , which provide bearers with privileged access to imported goods . |
| 4 | ‘ But I had no need to use your car as a ploy , because there you were at my home . |
| 5 | A vivid imagination can be no help to a sufferer from serious illness , unless we can help that sufferer to use his imagination as an ally . ’ |
| 6 | He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War . |
| 7 | He was a gifted musician and the army used his talents as a bugler on recruiting drives . |
| 8 | The second is the scrutiny review of voluntary sector funding , which we hope will encourage the government to use their funding as a strategic resource , to provide a stable back-drop for other forms of fund raising , to assign a proper status to voluntary sector funding and to devise more coherent arrangements for its ad , administration . |
| 9 | At the last Congress of the Romanian Communist party in November 1989 , they added Valentin to the Party 's Central Committee where he joined his brother and uncles , but even in the heat of the revolution a month later , no one thought to use his promotion as a serious charge against Valentin Ceauşescu . |
| 10 | With a casual message into his radio , he marched straight in , grabbed one of the fighters and forced his way through the crowd using his prisoner as a shield . |
| 11 | Having found water , which in these circumstances is bound to be tainted with sand , the elephant uses its trunk as a filtering device , swinging the tip until all the sand is thrown out and only the water is left . |