Example sentences of "and act as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chesapeake 's 5 million hectares of shoreline marshes buffer the eroding influence of waves and act as sediment screening sieves for water running off the shore . |
| 2 | By way of background information , some EPHs operate with a hierarchical structure of an Officer-in-charge ( ie the manager ) with 3 assistant officers , one of whom would be appointed as the Senior Assistant and act as deputy for the Officer-in-charge when required . |
| 3 | For two months every summer I was engaged to produce , and act as Master of Ceremonies for , the Home Gas Show , a weekly hour-length commercial programme . |
| 4 | Or you can design your home and act as site manager , hiring tradesman to do the job for you . |
| 5 | As before , his duties were to direct and evaluate the flow of intelligence data , channel it back to the DIA in Washington , and act as paymaster for what was now by far the most valuable Western intelligence asset in the Middle East . |
| 6 | Others , such as Ealing Public Library , made a formal arrangement to carry Mudie 's books and act as agent for them . |
| 7 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 8 | Formerly a teacher in the junior school of Donaldsons 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh and a tutor to the support service for students in Further Education , her principal tasks were organising the BDA 's own education programme making and maintaining contacts with the various educational establishments for deaf students and acting as spokesperson on all educational matters . |
| 9 | Scotland was about to lose its whizz kid , however , for Hunter succumbed to a bit of crafty recruiting at the Jersey convention in 1989 and migrated to England with his wife Lesley to join BP Oil UK as a senior journalist at Hemel Hempstead , editing Distributor magazine and acting as deputy editor of BP Oil News . |
| 10 | Many of its tasks — such as the directing of traffic and acting as emergency social services — have only the slightest political connotations , but at other times it is involved in politics in its role as defender of public order . |
| 11 | Wallich returned to India in 1838 as assistant surgeon in the Indian Army and saw considerable active service during the next nineteen years , taking part in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns of 1842 and 1847 and acting as field surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion of 1855–6 . |
| 12 | The tutor can have the responsibility of arranging the date , time and venue of the examination , and acting as invigilator if s/he so wishes . |
| 13 | Other areas of work include the keeping of records and acting as secretary to the Course Approvals Panel . |
| 14 | There is also inspection work for Midland bankers , survey work for Wirral and Sefton Councils and acting as church and ecclesiastical architectural consultants to both the Church of England and the RC Archdiocese . |
| 15 | Mervyn Pinfield , feeling he had done his job overcoming the show 's technical worries and acting as adviser to Verity Lambert , wanted to return to the more active area of Directing . |
| 16 | The scheme is intended to improve the city 's image and deter violence , vandalism and theft It would involve 30 uniformed wardens providing a 12-hour seven-day weekly eyes-and-ears service and acting as tourist guides . |
| 17 | Beside him sat Paula , checking her map and acting as navigator . |
| 18 | As well as advising on death duties and acting as executor of wills , this division will provide for those who need help in managing their own affairs , arrange retirement benefits and advise on tax reduction . |
| 19 | The certificate of practical completion is issued by the architect ( or other construction professional ) who is the agent of the vendor and acting as certifier in the separate contract for the construction of the building being sold or let . |
| 20 | ( The role of the teacher in the classroom is to deal with all the problems that the computer can not solve — helping the child who still does n't understand , hearing children read , and acting as manager , counsellor and troubleshooter . ) |
| 21 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 22 | The DoE , through Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , was given the task of co-ordinating a national response plan , installing the radiation monitoring network and acting as lead government department in an emergency ( HMSO 1988 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Slip is due to little bits of crystal getting loose and acting as roller bearings between the layers . |
| 24 | She was responsible for the CNAA 's response to the James Report , and acted as Secretary to the joint CNAA-NCDAD group in 1972–73 . |
| 25 | He recounted secret Privy Council discussions and acted as go-between in Anglican–dissenter negotiations . |
| 26 | Mr McIntyre represented the Library at the first East/West conference on the conservation of library materials held in Budapest in September ; he presented a paper on ‘ Risk Management ’ and acted as Conference Chairman on the final day . |
| 27 | In addition to conducting services three times during each week and three more on Sundays , he recorded all births , deaths and marriages , and acted as guide , counsellor and friend to all on board ship . |
| 28 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 29 | Thomas Balogh , who died in 1985 , made numerous contributions to the professional literature of economics , and acted as adviser to many governments . |
| 30 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |