Example sentences of "[conj] used as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Once an elite has established itself , it may well find itself being emulated or used as a reference group by ‘ lower ’ social classes .
2 Several slices or plaquettes may be cut , which can be examined separately ( see Section 4.2 ) or used as a back-up , should there be a failure at some subsequent stage in the section-making process .
3 Lace made on a knitting machine can be whatever you want it to be ; it can be filmy and fine for evening wear , lightweight in fine wool for a layer of warmth or used as a break inserted into the stocking stitch of a warm , chunky sweater .
4 People must rely as far as possible on not being killed or used as a resource , and on having some space and objects and relations with other people they can count as their own … .
5 Stacked for six months this will provide a useful ingredient to dig into the ground in the autumn , either forked in when planting or used as a mulch .
6 The following paragraphs may be inserted as appropriate in proposal letters or used as the basis of a stand alone letter on our fee structure .
7 This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious .
8 Equally , training and development is based on the formulation of the current situation being diagnosed against stated outcomes and used as a vehicle to ‘ close the gap ’ in individual and organisational terms .
9 The problem , whether it be vaginismus ( painful contraction of the vaginal muscles ) in the woman or failure to obtain an erection by the man , can be complained about and used as a defence against recognizing the problem in the self .
10 The artificial chromosome was gel-purified and used as a hybridization probe to identify 48 cosmid clones in a library constructed using DNA from cells of karyotype 49 , XX ( ref. 25 ) .
11 This YAC was gel-purified , and used as a hybridization probe to screen the cosmid library constructed from cells with karyotype 49 , XX as previously described .
12 Pierson ( 1981 ) suggested that a sample with the brightest observed luminescence be kept in the chamber and used as a reference against which the intensity of other sample areas could be less arbitrarily judged .
13 A flow sorted human chromosome 21 cosmid library containing 9,000 clones has been arrayed at high density onto nylon filters ( 5 ) and used as a reference library using the ICRF reference library database ( RLDB ) , ( 6 ) .
14 What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action .
15 Some of the arena 's dirt was later removed and used as a fill for home construction .
16 There is also a safety beard , which has a sewn-in whistle , and ten feet of extra thermal beard material which can be unrolled from the chin and used as a survival bag .
17 When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created .
18 In Sri Lanka it is dried and used as a fertiliser , while in Indonesia it is used as animal feed .
19 How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter .
20 Those at Rye Harbour and Northpoint Beach , Rye are extensive and largely undisturbed , although again there is strong pressure for recreational use ; that at Northpoint Beach is to be connected to the River Rother and used as a yacht basin .
21 At Cable Street the counter-demonstrators broke into a builder 's yard and a lorry loaded with bricks was overturned and used as a barricade .
22 Notes of questions arising out of the application form should be attached to it and used as a memory aid during the interview .
23 The screen was made to the same size as a photographic plate , and used as a contact filter in front of the negative during exposure .
24 The screen was made to the same size as a photographic plate , and used as a contact filter in front of the negative during exposure .
25 Many years later , this area was sub-divided and used as a physiotherapy department at the North Wing until in 1986 , it was opened out again — for use as a sewing-room .
26 They can then be referred to and used as a tool to facilitate such activities as decision making , monitoring and evaluation .
27 And a little added to an almond base , and used as a massage oil , can help those who find it hard to sleep .
28 These features can all too easily cause the annual review to be perceived as pointless drudgery , cause it to be prepared in as perfunctory a manner as possible and used as a device to obscure rather than reveal problems .
29 It remains to discuss how they might be characterized , interpreted , and used as a basis for further work .
30 The hand-out can be given out at the beginning of the learning session and used as a basis for teaching .
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