Example sentences of "[adv] acting as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it may cost the council a lot , but they 're only acting as guarantor . |
| 2 | The Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , José Durao Barroso , chaired the meetings , but stressed that he was not acting as mediator , a role still officially held by Zaïre 's President Mobutu . |
| 3 | ‘ It is convenient to consider first whether the judge was correct in holding that the husband , whatever else he may have done , was not acting as agent for the bank for the purposes of procuring the signature of the wife to the charge . |
| 4 | With the company 's founder , Toshio Sumino , still acting as chairman and president , and owning 16% of the firm , Autobacs is the sort of entrepreneurial company investors like . |
| 5 | if the interpreter is also acting as culture broker , guide , philosopher and friend several things can happen ; the level of interpreting accuracy diminishes as the interpreter addresses these additional roles , both the non-English and English speaking clients lose control over the content of what is said , and , if the interpreter takes it upon themselves to decide what is to be interpreted , the standard of service usually diminishes . |
| 6 | McCarthy N.C. , 1924 ) ; ( c ) judge also acting as prosecutor — ex p . |
| 7 | By chance , the Museum was also acting as host to a large delegation of Mayors and Councillors from the surrounding area and it is hoped that the significance of the presentation rubbed-off on them . |
| 8 | The formal nature of the signature does indeed suggest that Molla Fenari was signing the document in an official capacity ( cf. the informal nature of the problematical signature , cited on p. 155 of Husameddin 's article and discussed below , where Molla Fenari has clearly been asked simply to lend his name to the proceedings ) ; and while he was most probably acting as kadi of Bursa , as the biographical sources would suggest , it should be noted that the signature is not in itself conclusive proof of this . |
| 9 | With brothers Turner and Terts Ashibi now acting as coach and physiotherapist respectively , the team are ready to take on other challenges . |
| 10 | By 1949 he had become a central party figure , often acting as spokesman on minority issues . |
| 11 | She had left the two of them to duel , not even acting as referee , waiting for them to tire , perhaps even to appeal to her . |
| 12 | As a result of the Biarritz meeting it was clear to Bismarck that Napoleon III saw himself as ultimately acting as mediator in the event of such a conflict . |
| 13 | Every person claiming to be a creditor of the bankrupt must submit his claim in writing to the official receiver where acting as receiver and manager or to the trustee ( r 6.96(1) ) . |
| 14 | He has earned the congratulations of many anti-tobacco campaigners : David Pollock remarked that ‘ after years of the Secretary of State either acting as referee between the industry and the anti-tobacco movement , or actively joining the industry side , it is good news to have a Secretary of State for Health joining the anti-tobacco side . |