Example sentences of "[prep] acting as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 2 | In these and all other analyses , we have excluded all species whose long tails may have mechanical functions other than flight ( such as acting as a brace when climbing ) . |
| 3 | During the day John worked in the cotton trade , and in his spare time he devoted his energy to music and various activities , such as acting as the secretary for cricket clubs , always with the intention of promoting his business career . |
| 4 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |
| 5 | You will have the opportunity to participate in the students ' learning processes , for example , through acting as a consultant to a Mini-Enterprise , or through working alongside teachers on the production and delivery of materials and lessons . |
| 6 | The third portrait he promised to give to Madame Zborowska in gratitude for acting as a model . |
| 7 | In 1981 , at the 150th anniversary meeting in York of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , the University of York conferred its degree of doctor on J. G. Crowther ‘ For creating the profession of scientific correspondent , for scholarly contributions to the history of science and to the social aspects of science , and for acting as a healthy irritant to the scientific establishment for 60 years . ’ |
| 8 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 9 | Sooner or later it occurs to the owner that , for the price of two or three battery changes , it should be possible to make a transformer-rectifier unit capable of acting as a permanent substitute for the battery . |
| 10 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |
| 11 | He investigates some of the resulting attitudes to money , such as that of the miser , for whom , instead of acting as a tool , money becomes a barrier between means and ends ; this is also the case with excessive extravagance , where the overcoming of price as a constraint becomes the source and end of action . |
| 12 | Stewart ( 1989 ) argues that , despite the traditional subordinacy of the nurse to the doctor , nurse managers , for example , will need to demonstrate leadership not least in terms of acting as a role model for younger nurses and for maintaining morale . |
| 13 | This means that the test itself , regardless of its content is capable of acting as a filter , which is exactly what society wants , to allocate educational resources on an apparently fair and scientific basis . |
| 14 | He will try to lead the discussion , this time , instead of acting as a mere facilitator , but he could find himself shouted down or boycotted . |
| 15 | The colony 's German settler inhabitants had been accused of sexually abusing children , of torturing inmates and using them as slave labour , and also of acting as a torture centre for the DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36932 ; 37490 ] . |
| 16 | MEDIATION is the process of acting as a go-between , or guide . |
| 17 | When they were deployed later in the townships , the ANC accused 32 Battalion in particular of acting as a destabilising ‘ third force ’ and demanded its disbandment . |
| 18 | While the Royal Commission has never been accused of acting as an arm of government , its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select Committees of the House of Lords or House of Commons . |
| 19 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 20 | However , the evidence from Pittsburgh indicates that the community group , instead of acting as an oppositional force , has been brought more emphatically within the institutional orbit , both through the mechanisms for consultation and as it becomes formally integrated into local policy making . |
| 21 | Camilla 's days of acting as an unofficial hostess at Highgrove parties , while Diana was in Kensington , had come to an end , she was told . |
| 22 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 23 | Out of the Frying Pan , a modern tale based on the Aladdin story , also saw the return of Frank Finlay and included Alan Howard , learning the ropes of acting as an assistant stage manager before later acclaim as a Royal Shakespeare Company member . |
| 24 | The general role was a mix of less tangible duties including acting as a mother figure , friend or confidante . |
| 25 | ‘ He did n't try to talk me into acting as a romantic go-between . ’ |
| 26 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 27 | Apart from acting as a zone for maximizing non-dollar trade , the sterling area under Labour had two main effects . |
| 28 | The army has profited nicely from acting as a conduit for arms supplies to the resistance armies fighting in Cambodia and from its control of the timber and gem trades with Cambodia , Laos and Burma . |
| 29 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |
| 30 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |