Example sentences of "[prep] act as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After acting as surveyor of the Works in 1666 , during Denham 's illness , he was promoted to the comptrollership in June 1668 . |
| 2 | ‘ Such as acting as consultant and adviser on antiques generally — or in my case on one period . |
| 3 | ‘ Do we have enough air ? ’ ; through controlling proceedings : ‘ I 'll be talking for ten minutes , with five minutes for questions at the end ’ ; and through acting as guide to the presentation , by commenting on the route , ‘ So that 's my second point . |
| 4 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 5 | Banks also advertise their executorship services , which may be appropriate in some circumstances — but bank charges for acting as executor are high , and are not open to challenge or independent assessment in the same way as solicitors ' fees . |
| 6 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 7 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 8 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 9 | The book gave her the academic credentials she needed , and from 1914 to 1945 she combined her local social work with acting as tutor in economics at St Anne 's and tutor-secretary ( 1914–19 ) for women students at Barnett House , Oxford 's centre for training in social work . |
| 10 | S 45 contains provisions disqualifying certain individuals , such as those subject to an order disqualifying them from acting as company directors , from acting as charity trustees . |
| 11 | S 45 contains provisions disqualifying certain individuals , such as those subject to an order disqualifying them from acting as company directors , from acting as charity trustees . |
| 12 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 13 | It 's here that Impey , in his book , sees a particular role for the internal auditor in acting as tutor and guide to all line managers in assessing their own systems and controls , and identifying areas for improvement , as part of their annual operational review . |
| 14 | The pope should have been called upon to act as arbiter in the dispute , as he alone has regal and sacerdotal powers . |
| 15 | The third stage included provisions for : ( i ) direct elections to the Flemish and Walloon regional assemblies ; ( ii ) reform of the national parliament and especially the Senate which effectively duplicated the work of the Chamber of Deputies without acting as counterweight to it ; and ( iii ) defining the foreign policy prerogatives of the regions of Brussels , Flanders and Wallonia . |
| 16 | Although most types of commodity money have an intrinsic value , i.e. alternative use(s) to acting as money , all apart from precious metals have disadvantages . |
| 17 | He also asserts , although giving no evidence for the claim , that ‘ the delinquent 's girl is a force for conforming behaviour , as opposed to acting as provocateur for delinquent activity ’ . |
| 18 | It has been proposed that endoperoxides and thromboxane A 2 activate platelets by acting as calcium ionophores , hence mobilising intracellular free calcium ( Gerrard et al , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | This advantage is reinforced by the ability of such banks to raise large loans in the euro-currency markets by acting as syndicate leaders . |
| 20 | By acting as agent the purchaser will overcome the problem that the vendor no longer has the books and records of the business and may no longer have any accounting staff . |
| 21 | Unix International is trying to head off further fragmentation in the industry by acting as peacemaker between the new desktop rivals SunSoft Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc , anticipating some compatibility issues before the mud-slinging turns nasty . |
| 22 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |