Example sentences of "being use as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owl was being used as bait . |
| 2 | SPECULATION linking the Birmingham Six and the inquiry into the West Midlands serious crime squad is being used as propaganda for the IRA , the force 's Chief Constable , Mr Geoffrey Dear , claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | A newer method is titration with mercuric nitrate in acid solution , diphenylcarbazone being used as indicator . |
| 4 | Her official stationery is now being used as scrap paper in the royal mail . |
| 5 | But whatever definition one accepts , let us agree that there are such categories , and for the purpose of this work I shall define productive labour as being : labour which is exchanged with capital and produces a surplus-value , a surplus-value moreover which is embodied in material commodities , the form of which is capable of being used as capital for the reproduction and extension of capital . |
| 6 | Many such wagons spent long periods hidden away in marshalling yards or being used as storage containers on customers ' premises , practices which the business-led Railfreight sector was understandably keen to eradicate . |
| 7 | Industrial research has reflected this , and the earlier use of antibodies , based on electrochemical detection and a reformatted conventional immunoassay , has given way to antibodies being used as part of optical waveguides ( eg flexible optical fibres , prisms and glass plates ) . |
| 8 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
| 9 | To date 15 personnel from British Steel have been trained using this system which is now being used as part of normal training practice . |
| 10 | Unless the speech is being used as part of an interactive dialogue system then it is likely that writing is more natural for the situation . |
| 11 | Senior Moroccan government officials alleged that the Perrault book was being used as part of a French " anti-Moroccan campaign " . |
| 12 | This evidence for weighing gold shows how the coin was not being used as currency , and it may also be significant that many of the balances date to the period when the debasement of the gold coin was at its most serious . |
| 13 | They had some good meals together , and when John left , the man gave him an inscribed copy of the lithograph being used as poster for his exhibition . |
| 14 | The Party ordered 30,000 leaflets , capable of being used as window posters , and then discovered that the ‘ imprint ’ publisher 's details which must , by law , be openly displayed was on the wrong side . |
| 15 | In a further twist , a book by Theodor B. Donson , entitled Prints and the Print Market , published in 1977 and brought to the attention of The Art Newspaper by a restorer from Chicago , is now being used as evidence to back up the defence against Goldreyer 's extraordinary libel suits against critics of his restoration , totalling no less than $125 million . |
| 16 | The terms of paragraph 33 of the order , coupled with the written response of the Crown Prosecution Service , prevents the material provided in compliance with paragraphs 18 to 32 inclusive of the order being used as evidence in the prosecution of any offence alleged to have been committed by the defendants . |
| 17 | Previously they were withheld while being used as evidence . |
| 18 | Most importantly , section 98 of the Children Act withdraws the right to silence in proceedings for care , supervision or child protection under the Act , but disqualifies any admission made here from being used as evidence in criminal prosecution . |
| 19 | Where sunken buildings occur many artefacts are found as a result of their being used as rubbish pits after abandonment . |
| 20 | I felt that I was being used as training fodder for this black policeman . |
| 21 | In fact , one year later another " regular casual " employed by another large London hotel was held by the courts to be an employee , with the " Gardiner and Taverna " ruling being used as justification for this decision . |