Example sentences of "[am/are] use as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a great deal of essential data on infant behavior that I am using as control material . |
| 2 | In Upper Sumatra goldfish are used as currency . |
| 3 | Only individuals can fill out questionnaires , be interviewed , respond to attitude scales , be observed , and so on , and yet , very often , these are used as evidence for , or descriptions of , the supra-individual phenomena to which we have just referred . |
| 4 | First , if a number of subtests are used as part of a larger test , the conversion of the subtest scores to a single standard scale will assist in the interpretation of the subscale scores . |
| 5 | The following symbols and abbreviations are used as part of the explanation of the operating system commands . |
| 6 | • The scales of the Arapaima are used as nail flies in Brazil , and its tongue is sold as a souvenir . |
| 7 | Of particular importance , here , was the increased availability of methadone and DF11 8s , both of which are used as heroin substitutes in time of drought . |
| 8 | These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers , but for blocking the entire application . |
| 9 | The labels , racism and sexism , are used as summary terms for a very wide range of attitudes , behaviours and institutional processes which result in unequal access to material resources and personal dignity and choices . |
| 10 | The remaining pair of pads , mounted at the bottom of the tube , are used as fire buttons . |
| 11 | To take a final example , leaf-cutting ants have been extensively investigated but Atta nests have conspicuous mounds of refuse nearby and this is derived from the fungus gardens ; when the nests are near river banks , streams are used as disposal sites . |
| 12 | Finally , there is a miscellaneous conglomeration of sexual offences which are used as filler items in popular newspapers . |
| 13 | Scottish motorists , however , could receive preferential rates if , as expected , they are used as guinea pigs to prove that the theory of in-car navigation system can be made to work effectively on a national scale . |
| 14 | Your Tyre-Track Eel , Mastacembelus armatus , is from South East Asia , where they are used as food . |
| 15 | After 20 years or so thinning can begin ; the excess trees are used as timber and the remainder form a naturally spaced woodland . |
| 16 | Ten company factories are used as model automation plants . |