Example sentences of "is used [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly a child could be excluded from a pub garden if it is used principally as a drinking area . |
| 2 | For example Eleutherococcus senticosus is used widely as a tonic in the USSR , and is available in Soviet hospitals for people undergoing surgery , chemotherapy or radiotherapy , to improve their resistance and aid their recovery ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 576 ) . |
| 3 | The house stands in 3.6 acres and is used primarily as a residence by the XEU chief executive , other company executives and VIP guests . |
| 4 | Cream cheese may be moderate or full fat content and is used extensively as a base for dips , for cocktail fillings and for cooking . |
| 5 | The species type is very resistant to disease and is used extensively as a stock root for budding bush types . |
| 6 | Once assigned , a concealed logical is used exactly as a device name would be used , hence you can use the logical as the device name for the LIFESPAN process ( ie. , the keyword |DEVICE| in the configuration file ) . |
| 7 | The Whitebred Shorthorn is a selected white strain of the Dairy Shorthorn , bred mainly in the English/Scottish Borders region , and is used largely as a sire on Galloway cows to produce the popular Blue Grey beef suckler cows of southern Scotland . |
| 8 | It is obvious that , heard horizontally , this series on its own would give no tonal impression , and if any group of three or more notes is used vertically as a chord the effect is bound to be dissonant and non-tonal . |
| 9 | The micro is used simply as a device for presenting information as requested by the teacher — an electronic variant of the blackboard or overhead projector which uses the computer 's talents , for example , to do graphs , display pictures , record and reproduce data , or perform calculations . |
| 10 | This cultural expression is used both as a safety-value of light , communal entertainment in situations which might otherwise be tense , boring and/or tedious , and also as a tool of protest in itself with which to unify and cement the groups ' sense of identity and purpose . |
| 11 | One of the most useful class outlines to appear is that developed by Portes and is used here as a guide to the ramifications of class ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 12 | The phrase ‘ interpretative paradigm ’ is used here as a shorthand description of newer theories of organization that first began to emerge in the early 1970s . |
| 13 | As so often , ‘ decadent ’ is used here in a way evasive of what it gestures towards . |
| 14 | Boundary setting is used frequently in a variety of situations : the age at which " primary " becomes " secondary " education ; the minimum height for entry into the police force ; the marks to be obtained for a particular grade level in an examination and so on . |
| 15 | In this approach , a gene ( or nearby DNA sequence ) suspected of involvement in predisposition to disease , is used specifically as a probe in an association or linkage study . |
| 16 | The method is used mainly on a research basis , and validation of the assumptions made is necessary before widespread adoption of such photographic surveillance in routine clinical use can be advocated . |
| 17 | Another important CFC is CFC 113 which is used mainly as a solvent in the electronics industry . |
| 18 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 19 | Bel Paese was created in 1906 by Galbani and is sweet and buttery ; it is used mainly as a table dessert cheese . |
| 20 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 21 | Sometimes elite is used only as a synonym for leaders . |
| 22 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |