Example sentences of "[verb] [been] use as " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , this apparent similarity of method has been used as the basis for attempts , tentative and unlikely as they are , to find a rapprochement between Marxism and deconstruction . |
2 | Vai is a recognised beauty spot and has been used as a film location . |
3 | Give them a good shake , in case an interesting piece of paper has been used as a bookmark . |
4 | Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object . |
5 | Since 1936 the Hall of Mirrors has been used as a concert hall . |
6 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |
7 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
8 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
9 | This has been used as an agenda item by the partnership , through which student participation has been encouraged as indeed the pupil setting and review of progress within the RAE provides further stimulus to effective student involvement . |
10 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
11 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
12 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
13 | Finally , a pleasantly-grained veneer of dark ash has been used as a finish on the front and back of the headstock . |
14 | Since 1955 it has been used as a museum and now houses many of the best religious paintings , sculptures and vestments from the island 's churches , including several fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish works , said to have been obtained in exchange for sugar shipped from Funchal . |
15 | Modernity for these writers has been used as an all-embracing concept that includes both the ideologies of the modern world — its ‘ modernisms ’ — and also the economic , social and cultural realities of modern life . |
16 | Peter Oteng , senior officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in Birmingham , said : ‘ For years the ape or monkey has been used as a form of abuse to black people . |
17 | For some years , Myddelton Lodge has been used as the Leeds Diocesan Pastoral and Ecumenical Centre . |
18 | There are educational approaches where it has been used as a method . |
19 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
20 | Rather , it has been used as a retardant of the progression of AIDS , largely on the basis that it seems to sustain the subpopulation of T cells that appears especially vulnerable to HIV in the overt stage of the disease . |
21 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
22 | The income — expenditure model has been used as a framework for justifying this role for fiscal policy because government expenditure and taxation directly , and fairly reliably , influence national income levels . |
23 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
24 | Charlotte Bronte 's ‘ going away ’ dress has been used as a basis for the women 's gowns and the men 's costumes made from contemporary illustrations . |
25 | Many possible measures might be used ( Brown and Yule , 1983 ) , but following Garvey 's lead with younger children ( Garvey , 1979 ) , the distribution and pattern of clarification requests has been used as a starting point . |
26 | In what follows , the branch or sector has been used as a category in the first classification of father 's occupations , with skill as a secondary and more arguable subdivision . |
27 | Too often it has been used as a reward for political service . |
28 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
29 | Unreasonableness has been used as a ground of challenge in a number of contexts : ( a ) To control the exercise of discretion as in the Wednesbury case . |
30 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |