Example sentences of "use as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neocolors are greasy and are therefore lively for creating textures of all sorts and for using as a water resist . |
| 2 | People started washing , using as a toilet clean water , they all got dysentery , malaria , diphtheria . |
| 3 | This methodological study investigates the relative strengths and weaknesses of panel and cross-sectional approaches to the measurement of attitude data , using as a vehicle the British Social Attitudes Survey . |
| 4 | they 're using as a spoon ! |
| 5 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 6 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 7 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |
| 8 | It is this extra sum which the estate is using as a stick against the BMC , in the hope that it will stump up the cash as the estate can not afford to invest this much in climbing . |
| 9 | Using as a source of data three texts from different newspapers published on the same day looking at equivalent reca reports in the same news story or editorials , finding one text similar in topic as a basis for comparison . |
| 10 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 11 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 12 | This is my fucking heart you 're using as a football . |
| 13 | A very large number of scats was collected from an artificial salt lick , which the genet was using as a latrine . |
| 14 | Once a viewpoint has been selected , the subsequent CATWOE analysis is made easier by first considering the transformation that could be taking place in the selected system , using as a starting point a simple sketch of the conversion process , ie input-transformation-output ( Fig 15. 1 ) . |
| 15 | It is the aim of this study to investigate the determinants of unemployment and the behaviour of wages and prices in interwar Britain , using as a starting point models which have been developed to analyse the current unemployment problem . |
| 16 | Using as a medicine : |
| 17 | What distinguishes Regency houses perhaps most of all is the elaborate use of ironwork , which architects were just beginning to think of using as a matter of course . |
| 18 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 19 | The er Britannic that was one of the biggest boats at that time of the day , they 're using as a hospital ship . |
| 20 | I had tied a three inch strip of webbing between the shafts , which I used as a harness . |
| 21 | De Vere Green was already up in the seat of the converted Sno-cat that they used as a tractor , its caterpillar track ideal for use in the harsh Dartmoor winters . |
| 22 | Baillie : ‘ Kirk used as a punchball |
| 23 | Lobbying efforts from the local ( predominantly African-American ) activist population secured a large Urban Development Action Grant ( UDAG ) in 1979 which the Pittsburgh Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) used as a springboard to launch a broader improvement programme in the North Side . |
| 24 | The key to the polypterid method of breathing is the elastic skin of interlocking scales , like body armour , which they used as a kind of diaphragm . |
| 25 | He wrote it down in his ledger which he used as a kind of diary-cum-commonplace book : and by the vigour of his writing he has brought the encounter vividly to life : |
| 26 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 27 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 28 | Sarah that where that little desk she used as a dressing table , as I said , the desk in our will fit in there nicely , she says but I 'm leaving that till we |
| 29 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 30 | I have seen one turned into a grotto and another used as a play room , but both approaches needed more than a little hard work and cash . |