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

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1 In fact , in most of the applications of these theories to UK geography , they are used as broad , interpretative frameworks rather than as precise specifications .
2 ISI and ELI have been used as complementary and contradictory developmental strategies .
3 These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way .
4 The mains inlet cable must be secured to prevent it from pulling out , and a cable gland or ‘ P ’ clip can be used as normal .
5 Ordinary dispels , rebounds and other magic cards may be used as normal to stop spells directed at the Trolls should their natural dispel fail to work .
6 Chafe ( 1977 ) maintains that the categorisation arises as a result of the experience itself , the needs of the discourse , and especially the centrality of the word to be used as indicative of the category .
7 MACR does not form a word that can be Used as mnemonic , and Memory , Aims , Concentration and Review still lack one thing .
8 The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate .
9 The Generic Sciences modules have been designed so that they can be integrated into programmes in the individual sciences , providing appropriate science background for vocational programmes in other areas , or be used as general or leisure interest modules .
10 Here the carcasses were skinned , the oil extracted from the bodies , and the meat turned into meal to be used as chicken-feed .
11 Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment .
12 The term " disclosure " interview should not be used as this precludes the notion that [ sexual ] abuse has not occurred .
13 Primers derived from human β actin were used as internal PCR controls resulted in a 623 bp product ( data not shown ) and was used to ensure that the PCR worked consistently each time and the actin product acted as an additional size marker .
14 Analysis of variance , t tests , Mann-Whitney tests , and χ 2 tests were used as appropriate .
15 The dead girl links The Two April Mornings to the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , and since Emma is used as another name for Dorothy Wordsworth in yet another group of poems , it has been suggested that the Lucy/Matthew cycle is connected with a sublimated brother-sister relationship .
16 In this context the portentous dream is used as another example of the superstition of antiquity , rather than a statement of current belief .
17 In view of ( 3 ) we may write unc If ( 8 ) is used as postmultiplier of A , it is clear that A is deflated by the sweeping matrix in ( 8 ) to unc ( note that A1 here differs from the deflated form A1 of 2.7.2 ) .
18 He was used as substitute — scoring against Manchester United — until being named in the starting line-up for the Villa game .
19 This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself .
20 When I came to , I was used as one of their slaves and one of the men tried to kill my father .
21 They knew it was used as one of the staging-posts for the IRA , a safe hideaway from where they would launch an attack .
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