Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last might seem to be an asset if you are trying to lose weight , but in actual fact it merely acts as a mask to the body 's natural craving for food . |
| 2 | Although the single-section filters covered in this chapter are quite important , their treatment merely serves as an introduction to the vast subject of filters . |
| 3 | For many critics of the existing Constitution , parliamentary sovereignty no longer constitutes an encouragement to the rule of law but rather exists as an impediment to its attainment . |
| 4 | He usually comes as a stranger to the affairs of a company which has sunk to its financial doom . |
| 5 | IT ALWAYS COMES as a surprise to Nancy Kominsky that so many people still remember her for her television series in the late 1970s . |
| 6 | Lauda , who also acts as a consultant to the Ferrari F1 team , has shown an inclination to name his aircraft after famous musicians . |
| 7 | In all of these cases — anxiety , blood pressure , or psychotic temperament — the underlying trait , as well as describing differences between people , also acts as a disposition to the appropriate dysfunction to which it contributes . |
| 8 | In newsrooms libel is the greatest inhibition upon freedom of speech , although it also serves as a spur to accuracy and professionalism . |
| 9 | The book also serves as a guide to local phrases , translating some of the broader Gloucestershire dialect . |
| 10 | The ease with which even the bourgeois travel nowadays comes as an agony to one who has ‘ the Bosphorus in the soul ’ . |
| 11 | Each then acts as a template to which other simpler molecules become attached until each has once more become a double helix . |
| 12 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 13 | It therefore acts as a springboard to freedom . |