Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for his department said it would effectively act as a cap on costs . |
| 2 | The essence of the in vivo kinetic model is that polymer that is newly biosynthesized in an amorphous mobile form within the granule will only crystallize as a result of homogeneous ( spontaneous ) nucleation . |
| 3 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
| 4 | I recently purchased a frozen meal described as two portions , but it would only do as a meal for one . |
| 5 | Incidentally this accounts for the interminable debate about education , since objectives are not specifiable the content can only emerge as a consensus within the current zeitgeist . |
| 6 | Finding a sufficient number of tokens of a variable for each speaker did not apparently emerge as a problem in the early urban surveys which followed Labov 's 1966 model . |
| 7 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 8 | An affix is a grammatical element , belonging to a closed set , which can only function as a component of a word : dis — , un — , — ment , — ise , — ed , — s are all affixes . |
| 9 | The following day he ruled out , however , the idea of Baker going on to Baghdad as suggested by Iraq , apparently because of his belief that a series of meetings would only serve as a pretext for Iraq to delay any withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 10 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 11 | Even the certainties of hopelessness may paradoxically appear as a form of hope , promising to make reasonable what is unreasonable , namely hopelessness itself . |
| 12 | Since water does not normally exist as a liquid below its freezing point , any point on this curve represents water in a metastable condition . |
| 13 | However , in order to discover whether the history of the longue durée , and of structures and conjonctures , can be couched in the strongly counterfactual form spelled out , for example , by Miller , and can thus qualify as an example of concessive holist explanation , we need to consider its relations to the actions and intentions of individuals much more carefully . |
| 14 | Incentives are considered artificial if the rewarding events would not normally occur as a consequence of the behaviour outside the training situation ( e.g. being given stars or happy faces for getting dressed ) . |
| 15 | The Third World should no longer serve as a playpen for greedy , killer interventionist maneuvers by aging cold warriors . |
| 16 | For example , nobody could possibly observe as a matter of fact that most ‘ able bodied young adults ’ are male , because half of them are female . |
| 17 | But Allen insisted that the record of the NCF could hardly stand as a model for spreading the pacifist word in years to come . |
| 18 | In this way the project will generate a series of policy documents which will hopefully serve as a focus of discussions for the policy debate . |
| 19 | Thus ‘ held with the intention ’ came to be construed in a sense which the language of Parliament can not possibly bear as a matter of ordinary sense and grammar , as embracing not only material held by the crooked solicitor but material held without any intention on the part of the holder but infected , either at the time of its creation or , seemingly , at any subsequent time , by an intention on the part of any person , whether the client entitled to it or anyone else , to use it for furthering some criminal purpose . |
| 20 | The hands will also act as a stabilizer for balance . |
| 21 | The accord might also act as a floor to wages during the recession . |
| 22 | It will also act as a service to the Research and other interested constituencies . |
| 23 | It will also act as a catalyst for the regeneration and enhancement of the town , complementing its other nationally-important attractions : the Castle , St. Nicholas 's Church , and medieval Town Walls . |
| 24 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 25 | In fact , since C/EBPα can also act as a repressor on some promoters or enhancers ( 46–47 ) , it is possible that down-regulation of C/EBPα by IL-6 may be responsible for the induction of C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β . |
| 26 | As well as providing a dry and secure home for your car , garages may also act as a store for ladders , lawnmowers and kids ' bikes and maybe even a workshop utility room |
| 27 | Budgets can also act as a basis for comparing actual performance with a plan , and this comparison can then lead to identifications of variances from the plan which may initiate management action , where variances are undesirable , to ensure that in future periods such deviations do not occur . |
| 28 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |
| 29 | The site will attract visitors during the festival , and will later act as a focus for inward investment . |
| 30 | Vietnamese nationalism will probably act as a brake on further unrestrained Soviet development of Cam Ranh Bay and Danang . |