Example sentences of "[conj] use it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions .
2 In the face of the fundamentalists ' electoral success , the FLN political bureau on June 17 issued a statement rejecting " all attempts to return Islam to the era of charlatanism and myths or to use it as an instrument of demagogy and political opportunism " .
3 You can then either read it as a standard newspaper or use it as a database to search for particular articles .
4 Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute .
5 Two alternatives are possible , either to sell the machine now for £4,200 or use it in a new project that is currently under evaluation .
6 There is no better way of practising the language one is learning than using it outside the classroom .
7 They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release .
8 That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool .
9 Thus , he or she will tend to resolve the crisis rather than use it as a lever towards treatment .
10 If the patina chemical is too strong , dilute with a little water and , if using it for the first time , do a test on a sample piece of copper .
11 Child abuse is something no one would wish to endure , and using it as a sales/hype ploy is sick .
12 ‘ It was a nightmare , ’ Baldwin told G. M. Young , attributing the defeat exclusively to ‘ the pacifist ’ issue and using it as a reason for eschewing rearmament in the early days of Hitler .
13 Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club .
14 The plan for converting the large volumes of the mill interior into living accommodation involved retaining the entrance into the lean-to engine house and using it as the main entrance to the building .
15 The vulture is manipulating the stone and using it as an extension of its beak to crack the egg .
16 In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search .
17 He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent .
18 ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’
19 They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post .
20 The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages .
21 Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide .
22 Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community .
23 We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election .
24 It controlled the economic infrastructure and used it as a means of exploitation .
25 Speaking almost simultaneously on Tyne-Tees Television 's Face the Press , Mrs Thatcher showed an acute awareness of criticisms of her Cabinet style and used it as an explanation for not confronting Heseltine earlier in the Westland debate :
26 She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion .
27 Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning .
28 The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration .
29 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
30 Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous .
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