Example sentences of "[adv] use as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lily bulbs benefit from improved drainage and need cool roots , so using as spot plantings amongst other perennial plants and shrubs is ideal . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt whether it would be much use as evidence if you went to the police . |
| 3 | Parts of speaking just used as person 's thoughts . |
| 4 | Caesium is , of course , the largest simple cation in the periodic table and zeolites are widely used as detergent builders to ‘ bind ’ smaller ions , eg Ca 2+ . |
| 5 | Mixed with QACs they are widely used as skin disinfectants and are mainly associated with medical uses as are chlorhexidine gluconate and cetrimide . |
| 6 | Human rights organisations remain wary of publishing figures because they have been widely used as propaganda . |
| 7 | They are widely used as entrance qualifications for higher education . |
| 8 | Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle . |
| 9 | As such they are highly suitable for the brewing industry , from plant to road tankers , and are becoming widely used as glass washing agents in the licensed trades . |
| 10 | While translation exercises ( from and into French ) are still used as part of the programme , a wide range of exercises designed to foster accurate and appropriate self-expression in French is also used . |
| 11 | The males are usually used as line ferrets and the females are worked loose , muzzled or otherwise . |
| 12 | It was once used as storage space and curator of European Glass , Ceramics and Furniture says the idea is to provide a straightforward display of things which the public would enjoy looking at . |
| 13 | Also among Evershed 's finds was a vessel with pottery bits stuck back on using an adhesive containing betulin — a major component of silver birch trees — indicating that birch bark tar was once used as glue . |
| 14 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 15 | Saline was also used as vehicle and was administered in the same manner and in the same volume as the test substances . |
| 16 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 17 | Concentrated liquid pesticides applied as diluted sprays are perhaps the most versatile against pests of top growth , whereas soil pests are often treated with granules or dusts , the latter also used as seed dressings . |
| 18 | RNAs extracted from the D.melanogaster strain ( M ) was also used as control . |
| 19 | Meadow areas were also used as pasturage ‘ when the hay crop had been removed . |
| 20 | Passengers were later used as part of Saddam 's ‘ human shield ’ . |
| 21 | Marshall , the court held that a charge applied to factory machinery which had replaced that originally used as security for the repayment of a substantial debt . |
| 22 | The quarries on the skyline are now used as caravan sites . |
| 23 | BELOW Stone walls were often used as field boundaries , but when they are no longer maintained and collapse , they can quickly become overgrown with vegetation and hidden from view . |
| 24 | High and low angles are often used as point-of-view shots in which we are seeing the scenes through the eyes of one of the characters . |
| 25 | Stepping motors are often used as output devices for microprocessor-based control systems , e.g. a graphplotter pen may be driven by x- and y-axis stepping motors which are controlled by a microprocessor . |
| 26 | If a copy of ‘ If ’ ever existed at Anfield , however , it was probably long ago used as loo paper , judging by the bad-tempered reaction of manager Graeme Souness to defeat . |
| 27 | It is thought likely that more than this have been bred and not registered , simply used as guard dogs by the booming security industry in South Africa . |
| 28 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 29 | ‘ At Llanwern we previously operated an air cooling system on the slag and this was then used as road aggregate . |
| 30 | The recombinant and parental pLSO vectors were then used as source DNA in an in vitro kinase assay . |