Example sentences of "use [pron] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With synthetic fabrics , it may be sufficient to just stop wearing them and using them as bedding for a while , to see if this is beneficial . |
| 2 | SpreadBase provides users with a means of analysing structured data — as client-server environments have become more widespread , users have begun accessing corporate data on relational database servers , using them as decision support tools . |
| 3 | The fear of being deemed to be trading ( rather than investing ) in futures contracts , and so liable to taxation is thought to have deterred such institutions from using them as part of their investment strategy . |
| 4 | A farmer in Didcot had been using them as fence posts . |
| 5 | People have worshipped them , made religious sacrifices of them , used them as currency , put them in prison and , once , hanged one for murder . |
| 6 | Y342 billion by the Toyo Shinkin Bank , and used them as loan collateral . |
| 7 | Nomes in the Store used them as sleeping bags . |
| 8 | Again , this feature was copied from the West Indians who used it as part of their own hairstyles . |
| 9 | Tradition claims that King John used it as hunting lodge . |
| 10 | We had read it , used it as an absorbent insulating layer to combat puddles and spilt porridge , and finally , when it and our bowels had reached saturation point , used it as lavatory paper ! |
| 11 | He reconstructed some photographs of Pound in Venice , using himself as model . |
| 12 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 13 | Fanshawe uses his as drum machine , confessor weight-training apparatus . |
| 14 | Using SHE as justification , I snooped through drawers of drawers and subjected my chums to a barrage of impertinent questions . |
| 15 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 16 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 17 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 18 | We will probably use it as vacation . |
| 19 | The owner of a large herd could use it as leverage over poorer neighbours who depended on his goodwill to hire out cattle during the agricultural seasons . |
| 20 | Most men in our sample enjoy a blue movie , but these men are twice as likely as any other group to use them as part of their foreplay . |
| 21 | These will be available for members wishing to use them as part of their revision programme for the September examinations . |
| 22 | Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit . |
| 23 | As for the fieldworker 's position vis-à-vis informants , our concern is to account for this ( this can be seen as an extension of the notion of accountability to the data into the fieldwork phase ) and to use it as part of our method of data classification . |
| 24 | No , not as raw data but yo you then go to use it as intelligence , I E |
| 25 | Vinelott J noted that the issue was not the admissibility of the transcript ( see s 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which makes admissible in evidence statements made under a requirement imposed by the 1986 Act ) but whether the SFO should be allowed to use it as evidence otherwise than in accordance with s 2(8) of the 1987 Act . |
| 26 | Sniffers may be able to exercise some control over their hallucinations and use them as part of group activities . |
| 27 | Even if you just use them as memory joggers , they could prove invaluable if there is ever a quarrel about who actually said what and when . |
| 28 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |
| 29 | From her knowledge of the continent she was able to give me useful information , advice , and travellers ' tips , and she suggested that I take with me a supply of those items which were in even shorter supply in France than in Britain , such as coffee and cigarettes , and use them as barter . |
| 30 | Or , or use it as scrape . |