Example sentences of "is used as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe .
2 The bait dropper is normally used independently of the rod with which you are fishing , and the swimfeeder is used as part of the end tackle to which your baited hook is attached .
3 The therapy produces the theory ; the theory is used as part of the communication processes which relieves suffering .
4 To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added .
5 In many third world countries human waste is used as fertiliser , and indeed in some oases night soil clearance areas are valued .
6 For example , oil is used as payment by oil producing countries for goods and services .
7 In Sri Lanka it is dried and used as a fertiliser , while in Indonesia it is used as animal feed .
8 When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected .
9 It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows .
10 TAA is used as stop codon .
11 Some fungus is used as food for the Night Goblins and their strange animals , but many are grown for their hallucinogenic or intoxicating properties or because they affect the Goblin metabolism in some other way .
12 However , attributes like those listed above clearly can not easily be manipulated , a particular problem in Nordberg 's view when an ‘ insider ’ is used as fieldworker :
13 On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer .
14 In this context the term ‘ machine ’ is used as shorthand for the total hardware and software system or , in other terminology , the plant .
15 An end-quarter exchange rate is used as interest lies in the gains that could be made over the period in which the yield differential held on average .
16 Llamas and alpacas ( related to camel ) provide the Andeans with warm clothing that is need at such heights are as well as dung which is used as fuel and burnt .
17 The highest quality grain is used as seed .
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