Example sentences of "been used as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 2 | At local level the survey 's findings have been used as part of the Lingdale Revitalisation Project , to argue the case for converting the old village primary school into homes . |
| 3 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |
| 4 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 5 | In the course of history , many different commodities have been used as money — for example shells , animals and metals . |
| 6 | As Raymond de Becker points out , they could have been used as gospel by the naive , or turned into parlour games by sceptics . |
| 7 | Where a journalist intends to refer to an unnamed individual , it is reasonable that the individual should have an action for libel if others have correctly identified him or her as the target , whatever literary devices have been used as camouflage . |
| 8 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 9 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 10 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 11 | Conodonts have traditionally been used as form taxa , useful for stratigraphic correlation within Palaeozoic rocks . |
| 12 | Over 400 caves exist which have been used as food and wine/beer stores , tanning and malting rooms , dwellings and shelters in time of war . |
| 13 | Indeed , Crone said in his report that ‘ … the examination of these fake specimens shed no light at all on the main question as to whether mycotoxins have been used as warfare agents in Laos or Kampuchea ’ . |
| 14 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 15 | Inter-strain differences in the amount of C-banded material occurs between certain autosomes ( 11 ) and have been used as cell markers in chimaeras ( 12 ) . |