Example sentences of "be acting as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 2 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 3 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 4 | 17 year old , Richard Tuthill , the youngest driver and his dad , who 's been acting as navigator will make it too in their old beetle . |
| 5 | In any case , young Gavin can always fill his shoes if he does n't appear — he 's been acting as understudy . |
| 6 | ‘ According to him , you are acting as understudy . |
| 7 | Enumerate the points to be made , and state what part of the argument is being left to your junior ( if you are acting as leader ) . |
| 8 | Yeah I I I 'm acting as devil 's advocate in a sense . |
| 9 | Sir Thomas will no longer be acting as go-between in the matter of correspondence , but the prince might well contrive some other means of communicating with you . |
| 10 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | In general terms an indirect customer is a person for whom the firm 's direct customer is known to be acting as intermediary , who is identified to the firm before the transaction and who would be a customer of the firm if dealt with direct . |
| 12 | If an independent person is required to determine the dispute , should that person be acting as expert ( less formal , procedures agreed between parties , decision almost impossible to challenge ) or as arbitrator ( quasi-litigation , procedures defined by law , can be appealed to courts ) ? |
| 13 | Secondly , he must be acting as agent in a way of business . |
| 14 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 15 | You should also make sure that the person who will be acting as receptionist is properly briefed . |
| 16 | By mid-1993 one location — still to be named — will be acting as testbed for the improved HSE audit procedures . |
| 17 | Service must be effected on one of the persons acting or deemed to be acting as solicitor for the department . |
| 18 | Sheffield will be acting as host city . |
| 19 | Some of the German soldiers who were acting as escort for the Poles , began to unsling their rifles apprehensively . |
| 20 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 21 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 22 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 23 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , USL Pacific is acting as Chorus ' agent in the Far East where it has no operation of its own . |
| 25 | If the firm does not know whether its counterparty is acting as principal or intermediary , then it is clear that , even if he is acting as intermediary , his client is unidentified . |
| 26 | In this context , it should be noted that best execution would not apply , unless one of the SFA members is acting as intermediary for or advises the other and the client firm does not waive it . |
| 27 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw V Thomas , who is acting as co-ordinator following the flood damage in the Aberconwy area , last night praised the 50 Army personnel for the work they put in during the day to help clear up the mess in the Morfa Conwy and Llandudno Junction areas . |
| 28 | There is an obvious sense , therefore , in which the trustee company is acting as guardian of the unit holders ' interests . |
| 29 | Systems & Processes Engineering Corp down in Texas has got first silicon in its NASA-backed effort to make a 200MHz Gallium Arsenide Sparc module for use in space applications , Electronic Engineering Times reports : Vitesse Semiconductor Corp is acting as foundry . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) this rule does not apply where a member of the public deposits money with a solicitor who is acting as agent for a building society or other financial institution and the solicitor has not advised that person as a client as to the disposition of the money . |