Example sentences of "[adv] use as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similarly failed road , at least to the west of Bicester , is the Roman Akeman Street which is only used as a modern road in short sections . |
| 2 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |
| 3 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 4 | As for the famous stinging tail , it 's only used as a last resort . |
| 5 | The top octave is not , however , much used as a general rule except for very special solo effects where a relentless and rather brutal characterization is being aimed at . |
| 6 | This mechanism was much used as an ancilliary pump in nineteenth century steam engines . |
| 7 | In such cases the system is merely used as a collective vehicle for an open-system approach which involves input , storage , output relationships ; for systems hierarchies ; and for concepts such as thresholds and relaxation times which relate to change and are considered in chapter 8 ( p. 174 ) . |
| 8 | There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage . |
| 9 | It turned out to be uniquely suited because the station is no longer used as an American Maintenance base and is due to close in a few weeks time . |
| 10 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 11 | The adaptive expectations mechanism was widely used as a formal representation of this process of expectations revision . |
| 12 | Biogas produced in this way is not widely used as an alternative energy source in the developed world , but is now widely used in China where several million small-scale digesters have been constructed to produce fuel for cooking and lighting at a local level . |
| 13 | SIR — ‘ The South ’ is now widely used as the collective term for non-industrialized nations , with the implication that there is either a consistent trend of a major discontinuity in the relationship between latitude and socio-economic development . |
| 14 | The three buildings in Croydon which are exclusively dedicated to the education of adults are intensively used as an important access point for people following general non-vocational , basic skills , accredited and work training programmes . |
| 15 | In Muslim countries , green — the colour of Mohammed 's coat — is sacred and is very rarely used as a predominant colour ; but it forms an important part of the dyer 's palette in non-Muslim cultures , particularly China ; here , the sacred colour is yellow , in which the Emperor traditionally dressed . |
| 16 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 17 | Part of the building is still used as a working mill . |
| 18 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 19 | Other items include a ravishing account of ‘ Qui la voce ’ from Bellini 's Puritani done in 1960 , the end of Act 1 of Verdi 's La Traviata , the Bell Song from Delibes ' Lakme and a rare Donizetti aria once used as a substitute item in Lucia . |
| 20 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 21 | Nitrous oxide , commonly known as laughing gas and once used as a dental anaesthetic , is a natural product of biological processes in soils and water but is also emitted to the atmosphere by fossil-fuel burning , soil disturbance , the application of nitrogen based fertilizers , biomass burning and animal and human wastes . |
| 22 | These ‘ speech levels ’ are also used as a polite framework to communicate further subtleties of meaning . |
| 23 | It is also used as a dramatic device by many contemporary playwrights . |
| 24 | This species is also used as a medicinal herb in S.E. Asia . |
| 25 | In the nuclear power plant design they are also used as the final stage of pre-construction design evaluation ( Williams and Story , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The word is apparently derived from the Germanic dotter or yolk of egg , which is roughly the colour of the common European dodder , and is now used as a common name for all species belonging to the genus Cuscuta . |
| 27 | ‘ Hawk ’ is often used as a general term for smaller birds of prey , as well as more strictly for the genus Accipiter . |
| 28 | White mustard seed is mild and is often used as a pickling spice . |
| 29 | ( The term ‘ academic ’ is often used as a pejorative label to describe such explanations . ) |
| 30 | However , the number of people who return to education once they have left school or college is so low that the age of finishing full-time education is often used as a simple indicator . |