Example sentences of "act as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums .
2 In 1983 Philip Hollins , audit partner at accountants Hacker Young , was asked if his firm would act as the Halls ' auditor .
3 But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence .
4 MPs are to table Commons questions about reports that Ulster security forces allowed a top IRA volunteer to carry on terrorist activities while acting as a police informer .
5 AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday .
6 It is believed that the tongue plays an important part in acting as an antennae for vibrations , or that the snake is hypersensitive to earth vibrations .
7 Many of these were the overseas branches of US banks which made a healthy margin in acting as the go-betweens between the OPEC members , who wanted to lend dollars , and the countries with balance of payments deficits which wanted to borrow them .
8 Once the people had been chastised by God 's flail ( ‘ flagellum Dei ’ ) , with the English acting as the instruments of his punishment , then the days of victory would return .
9 By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge .
10 The general practitioners act as the directors , assessing need and instructing the general manager .
11 The quay , which acted as the customs shed , was three rusting barges lashed together and covered with a roof of corrugated iron .
12 In its ‘ manufacture ’ of proteins , DNA is assisted by a subsidiary nucleic acid , called ribonucleic acid or RNA ; and in some viruses RNA completely replaces DNA , and itself acts as the genes .
13 Guide us Lord , to know when to speak and what to say , and fill us with your love that we may be able to act as the bringers of peace to those in desperate need of peace and reconciliation .
14 Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project .
15 In this way men continued to act as the mediators between the public and private domains , between the world of politics and the family .
16 A few very large and affluent City firms have adapted themselves to act as the agents and advisers of commerce and industry ; they have modern offices with every aid and convenience , and the partners specialise intensively .
17 Instead DHAs and GP fundholders continue to act as the agents of patients , purchasing services on their behalf .
18 Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established .
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