Example sentences of "[adv] used as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal background in a growth cabinet would be a combination of the light blue of the luncheon boxes normally used as containers for the plants and the reflecting ‘ Mylar ’ foil covering the walls . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is still used as offices for Holderness Borough Council . |
| 4 | Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control . |
| 5 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Scenes from his native Iran are also used as backgrounds for further facial superimpositions . |
| 8 | A design often found on enssi rugs , which were traditionally used as door-hangings in the nomad 's yurt ( tent ) ; it is quite common for any rug woven in this design to be referred to as an enssi , or a Bokhara with an enssi design . |
| 9 | Passengers were later used as part of Saddam 's ‘ human shield ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Physiological measures which have been equated with subjective risk when driving are galvanic skin response ( GSR ) ( e.g. Helander & Söderberg , 1973 — described in Summala , 1976 ; Hulbert , 1957 ; Preston , 1969 ; Taylor , 1964 ) and heart rate ( Rutley & Mace , 1972 ) , both of which are often used as measures of physiological arousal . |
| 12 | The age and frailty of this patient group are often used as justifications for limiting investigations and employing palliative methods of treatment such as endoscopic balloon dilatation or stenting . |
| 13 | But conversely , in Latin America , negra or neqrita are often used as terms of affection . |
| 14 | the emphasis of political discussion moved away from domestic problems to the international scene , although states like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany were often used as symbols for forces existing in British politics . |
| 15 | Precious metals are now often used as settings for both traditional and modern jewellery designs . |
| 16 | Complaints that British ships by comparison with those of France were too small , sailed badly and were encumbered by too many guns , continued to be heard to the end of the century and afterwards ; while French prizes were frequently used as models for the design of new British men-of-war . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both the parent and recombinant plasmid were then used as cofactors for the DNA-PK in in vitro kinase assays ( Figure 6A ) . |
| 19 | The single strands of this PPT element were then used as probes in gel retardation analysis with rat cerebellum extract . |
| 20 | Cells were infected overnight with influenza virus and then used as targets for the CTL clone Q66.9 , which recognizes the influenza matrix-derived peptide epitope M58–66 restricted by HLA-A2.1 . |
| 21 | Market segments are then used as targets against which appropriate products or services can be positioned , if the forecast revenues are likely to exceed the costs to be incurred . |
| 22 | These clusters are then used as targets against which products should be positioned . |
| 23 | They need " control " and " regulation " and " licensing " , words which are sometimes used as euphemisms for censorship . |
| 24 | are sometimes used as part of I Q tests and things like that sometimes |
| 25 | Steel or aluminium are metals sometimes used as alternatives to the traditional wooded easel . |
| 26 | Steel or aluminium are metals sometimes used as alternatives to the traditional wooded easel . |
| 27 | These are sometimes used as substitutes for oxide glasses in , for example , aircraft windows . |
| 28 | These are the central feature of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico , but then again skulls and skeletons are commonly used as emblems of the transience of life in seventeenth-century Spanish painting . |
| 29 | It became explicitly used as part of a campaign against the sexual abuse of children . |