Example sentences of "[adv] use as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 2 | This is sometimes used as a complement to the organ in accompanying Early , Renaissance , Tudor and Baroque music . |
| 3 | Goat 's milk , which is sometimes used as an alternative to cow 's , is low in folic acid , an important vitamin necessary for proper blood formation , and his vitamin should be added if you use goat 's milk . |
| 4 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 5 | Purchase and resale agreements are occasionally used as an alternative to outright purchases . |