Example sentences of "be used as the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The number of matchings achieved by each construct with constructs 5 and 2 are used as the co-ordinates ( these are circled in table 12.4 ) .
2 Cards are used as the medium which translates the pattern into a mechanical function on the Jacquard loom .
3 Odours and fumes given off from pans in which fish is fried , particularly when rancid oils or vegetable oils are used as the frying medium , are liable to give rise to objections from nearby residents .
4 Fourthly , detailed evaluation and monitoring procedures must exist which are used as the basis for managing change .
5 Once approved , these are used as the basis for governmental policy review .
6 Apart from the value of the pictures in terms of summarising the main factors about a situation , they are used as the basis for selecting relevant systems when preparing root definitions and associated conceptual models .
7 Hillman has graphically shown what will result when these data are used as the basis for planning , as in the case of recent DoE advice to local authorities on planning for shopping provision .
8 The picture changes dramatically , however , if adults rather than households are used as the basis of the calculation .
9 Chickpeas are used as the basis of many southern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes , including hummus and couscous .
10 Where they are used as the basis of inter-country comparisons , which is by far the most common use that is made of them , they predispose the results of such comparisons to certain conclusions which are usually prejudiced by unspoken theory-laden assumptions .
11 There are equally logical intercorrelations between the various land-cover pixel counts which are used as the carrier variables .
12 Throughout the year , core concepts such as ‘ civilisation ’ , ‘ government ’ , ‘ power ’ , ‘ religion ’ , and ‘ Empire ’ are used as the key to pupils ' learning and understanding .
13 These same islands — plus Jersey , Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands — are used as the domicile of so-called exempt or international business companies .
14 In addition , the research provides a detailed account of the mental processes that are used as the reader understands each new word in a sentence .
15 For most of this century it is those disorders gathered together under the heading of ‘ schizophrenia ’ that have been used as the paradigm for trying to describe and understand psychosis .
16 Nevertheless , this apparent similarity of method has been used as the basis for attempts , tentative and unlikely as they are , to find a rapprochement between Marxism and deconstruction .
17 The recommendations of the Working Party have been used as the basis for financial allocations to the Health Service regions since 1977 .
18 Skeletal element proportions based on total numbers of bones have been used as the basis for Fig. 3.1 comparing two kestrel samples with four barn owl samples .
19 In this case , visual information will have been used as the basis of a decision , and a decision is necessary because English orthography allows one of two letters in this position in our target word .
20 The five facets identified above have been used as the basis for a standard citation order , that is PMEST .
21 A further argument for a graph-based analysis of the issues , as well as for the using the Chart system specifically , is that , although the Chart was designed for use with rule-based systems , it has been used as the basis of a connectionist model of parsing ( Waltz & Pollack 1985 ) .
22 For some years , Myddelton Lodge has been used as the Leeds Diocesan Pastoral and Ecumenical Centre .
23 While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best .
24 In 1927 Variety 's judgement of Rose of the Tenements was that ‘ New York 's pictorially hackneyed East Side ’ had been used as the setting for ‘ a drab colourless presentation offering little in either entertainment or box office value ’ , and that family problems had not been ‘ dramatized to an extent where the mob can be made to forget the obvious ordinary scheme of things ’ .
25 Nylon wool mops to be used as the spawning medium were sterilized by boiling .
26 An existence string that will be used as the title of any packages created .
27 It will be used as the ticket office at Embsay Station .
28 I set the punchcard on lock and proceed as usual , select a group of needles to be used as the motif and push all others back to WP ( needles must be pushed back on every row ) .
29 The body was to be dissected at a public lecture by Southwood Smith to be entitled ‘ The Structures and Functions of the Human Frame ’ , after which the skeleton was to be used as the armature of an image — an ‘ auto-icon ’ — of himself , to be attired in his own clothes and placed in University College .
30 The audited consolidated accounts for the year in question will be used as the gauge by which to determine the profits .
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