Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] its [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 2 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 3 | The museum has two objectives now : to display costumes from its collection of 50,000 objects throughout the year ; and to reclaim its role as the preeminent institution of costume scholarship . |
| 4 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 5 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 6 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 7 | It is a fine , Medieval bridge , guarded at each end and fortified as befitted its position as the sole river crossing and approach to the castle . |
| 8 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |