Example sentences of "use as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Toy Box is the ideal introduction to learning English and can be used as a foundation to any main primary course .
3 There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) .
4 Video film of meetings and the interchange of information provides a mobile and often vibrant record of peoples experiences , and when this is used as a stimulus to further discussion , the results can be dramatic .
5 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 .
6 It is designed to be used as a server to a Unix workstation , and is claimed to execute 1G multiply-accumulates per second .
7 It is designed to be used as a server to a Unix workstation , and is claimed to execute 1G multiply-accumulates per second .
8 Auditors normally issue a report which is a statement used as a preface to the financial statements of a company .
9 is used as a handmaid to reforming legislation , it is most unlikely that the floodgates will be opened if the exemption is lifted .
10 A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest .
11 This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs .
12 The BNL index can also be used as a cross-reference to other unindexed newspapers of the period .
13 The thumb on the right hand is used as a pointer to the other fingers on the same hand .
14 Benji is an ex-champion Prix St Georges dressage horse with a wonderfully laidback temperament and is used as a schoolmaster to many of Catherston 's pupils .
15 Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained .
16 The light source must therefore be immensely brighter if it is to be used as a headlight to illuminate the path , than if it is to be used as a signal to others .
17 The occupational health department should be used as a resource to those nurses who it is suspected may have a health or social problem .
18 However this can not be used as a guide to future performance as investments can go down as well as up .
19 However , this can not be used as a guide to future fund performance , as unit prices can fall as well as rise .
20 However , such hypotheses are expected to emerge from the research as it goes along , rather than be specified from the start and used as a guide to the kind of data that is sought and collected .
21 The coastline shown on the colour picture ( front cover ) should therefore only be used as a guide to the size of the ozone hole and not its longitudinal position .
22 This specimen may be used as a guide to the type of letter to be sent to a more experienced client for whom we are acting in connection with the sale of a company .
23 This specimen may be used as a guide to the type of letter to be sent to a less experienced client for whom we are acting in connection with the sale of a company .
24 The landing grounds were linked with a furrowed track which a motor company called Nairn Transport used as a guide to Rutbah Wells — a kind of Beau Geste-type of fort , or staging post — between Baghdad and Damascus .
25 Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) .
26 This is sometimes used as a complement to the organ in accompanying Early , Renaissance , Tudor and Baroque music .
27 Expressing the view of some delegates that the conference had merely been used as a forum to air US views , Brice Lalonde , the French Secretary of State for the Environment , said afterwards : " We have the feeling we were just invited to listen . "
28 A new breakthrough should have been made in mid-1989 , when the track was used as a theme to the Jeff Goldblum/Rowan Atkinson movie The Tall Guy , in which Suggs made an appearance .
29 If this option is chosen , or automatically following Option 0 , the user is required first to provide a dark background — preferably of the same material as will be used as a background to the subject and then a light background ( not necessarily white ) .
30 This data will be used as a background to interviews and discussions with key individuals and groups involved in the decision making process .
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