Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target . |
| 2 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 3 | He is my wife 's brother and he works as a journalist with a newspaper in Hue . |
| 4 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 5 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 6 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 7 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 8 | There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . |
| 9 | Concern about rabies may seem a somewhat trivial issue in a discussion of the huge topic of preventing infection , but it serves as a reminder that prevention is a subject which will always be fundamental to maintaining a safe environment , though the precise nature of the concern will vary among countries and over time . |