Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this study is to examine the handling of complaints made by individuals or organizations against government departments , using as examples H.M. Customs and Excise and the Immigration and Nationality Department . |
| 2 | While the larger estates like Ashburnham or Sheffield controlled almost all aspects of local production and distribution , the pattern elsewhere was one of a widespread use of individuals , contracting as suppliers , carters and labour . |
| 3 | Sara Jones , 49 , said the series , written by Lynda La Plante and which shows ex-Paratroopers struggling as civilians , left her so angry she had stopped watching it . |
| 4 | Hereabouts the native bedrock of much of Sutherland is evident everywhere on the hillsides and bordering the roads , appearing as outcrops and in patches , pale in colour . |
| 5 | In this way the social and functional structure for London became a constellation of residential areas , in map form appearing as eggs in a basket , against a backcloth of open space . |
| 6 | It only applies to women and men living as couples . |
| 7 | We are looking as schemes which will directly benefit out members . |
| 8 | Who could express dissenting views openly when neighbours he hardly knew let alone trusted could hear every word in the shared kitchen or through thin partitions passing as walls ? |
| 9 | They follow roughly parallel courses down from high mountains to the coastal plain ; all have lochs serving as reservoirs ; all have roads , public or private , that extend far into the interior and there end ; none of them is accessible by road from the west and they can only be approached by wheeled traffic coming from the east . |
| 10 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 11 | Only the papers by R. Derby and H.J. Kleintjes on acetylenic glycols serving as surfactants in emulsion and dispersion paints which minimise the water-sensitivity of the final coatings ; the paper by P.J. Moles on zirconium derivatives as cross-linking agents ; and the papers on urethane-polymeric thickeners and ionomer dispersions by J.H. Bieleman and by W.D . |
| 12 | The shooting happened in what is usually a quiet section of the French Quarter on a street lined with historic buildings serving as apartments , hotels and restaurants . |
| 13 | Bell towers were important features of most churches , serving as places of refuge , means of raising the alarm and giving notice of events . |
| 14 | These are two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the UN Protection Force . |
| 15 | Prince Charles is due to visit two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations Protection Force , arriving this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travelling on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt , near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 16 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 17 | A great deal of work is done by members of local authorities by serving as representatives of their authorities on outside bodies . |
| 18 | Another obstacle to headmen serving as representatives of the principles behind the legal administration was their own participation in crime . |
| 19 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 20 | Then one day my brother and 1 , serving as archers , were caught outside a town by a group of French horsemen . |
| 21 | They have existed for centuries , serving as shops , offices , workshops and homes in this bustling corner of the city . |
| 22 | Being mostly new , they were exceedingly useful to the Navy , serving as minesweepers and coastal patrol vessels . |
| 23 | We are acting as hosts for the team during this week . |
| 24 | A rainbow is formed from the interaction of pure white sunlight with molecules of moisture in the atmosphere acting as prisms that break up the light into the respective colours perceived through our senses . |
| 25 | It heads a consortium including ACT Logsys and Coopers & Lybrand Co , and provides open systems expertise , software , communications and support , acting as systems and services integrator . |
| 26 | Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning . |
| 27 | Literary texts can be seen acting as metaphors for features the skilled ( shamanistic perhaps ? ) reader of the cultural text discerns and whose significances to the larger whole are suggestively indicated . |
| 28 | Rejection of an agency relationship between the Council and the member States depends upon separating the members of the Council acting as members of the Council , from members of the Council acting as delegates of the States . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) This is an absolute disqualification of the persons mentioned from acting as members of a board for any purpose . |
| 30 | In addition , however , sessions like this , or sequences of them , can be used as a consultancy training ground by inviting from any of the school services those with specialist qualifications and good experience in meeting children 's special needs , to attend such meetings as participant observers acting as co-consultants . |