Example sentences of "to act [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic offence would cover amateur hackers who access systems for fun and would be intended to act as a general deterrent to all types of hacking . |
| 2 | The view expressed here is that the punishment of those found guilty of insider dealing ought to be sufficient to act as a general deterrent for others who have access to inside information , so as to further reduce the incentive to indulge in the practice of insider dealing . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , ministers were known to favour strong action against anyone who was caught passing on information , to act as a general deterrent to other officials . |
| 4 | In the Icelandic centre the weather was worse , with snow drifting to over seven metres , and temperatures down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) to act as a good prelude to wind-chill calculations . |
| 5 | For the idea that a lawyer could be appointed to act as a legal expert to decide all types of disputes arising under a contract , see 6.9.3 . |
| 6 | The modern origin of this approach is the Special Patrol Group ( SPG ) which was formed in London in 1965 to act as a mobile anti-crime group to help local police forces to deal with the rising rate of urban crime . |
| 7 | 1 As a result of the broadcasting bill , ITV is to act as a financial safety net if Channel Four 's advertising income falls below a certain margin of profitability . |
| 8 | Establishing a ‘ lead agency ’ as the single source of funding for the social care for elderly people is designed to act as a financial incentive for the social services department to develop alternative and less expensive community care options . |
| 9 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 10 | Innocent 's reply to an enquiring letter from Bishop Eustace of Ely , who was requesting clarification and help on a number of problems in order to act as a papal judge delegate , did exactly this . |
| 11 | Eventually she had become resigned to a dull , passionless existence ; her husband had masked his indifference to her real feelings with elaborate public courtesies , and her only role outside of motherhood had been to act as a decorative hostess at his political functions . |
| 12 | With plenty of power in hand to act as a technical workstation , it also provides the flexibility to run all the usual 286 and 386 PC software . |
| 13 | ( a ) To act as a central collecting point for information on developments in order to use in courses . |
| 14 | ( The Executive Committee and the Supreme Council for the Defence of the Homeland had both been formed in February 1989 to act as a central leadership under the country 's emergency regulations — see pp. 36449-50 . ) |
| 15 | If you are planning to lay ceramic or quarry tiles on a suspended timber floor , put down 18 or 22mm exterior-grade plywood rather than hardboard , to act as a stable sub-base . |
| 16 | Acknowledging the plan 's failure the then Finance Minister , Maílson Ferreira da Nóbrega , on June 16 reintroduced an official daily indexation factor , the National Fiscal Treasury Bond ( BTNF ) , to act as a stable point of reference for financial operations . |
| 17 | There was also a National Joint Council , which brought together representatives of the General Council the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Labour Party , to act as a co-ordinating body for the Labour movement . |
| 18 | It had been formed to act as a co-ordinating body for banned organizations , and had played a leading role in the 1984-86 uprisings in black townships . |
| 19 | Levy Mwanawasa , a constitutional lawyer , was named as Vice-President and Leader of the National Assembly , and was expected to act as a prime minister , running day-to-day affairs . |
| 20 | These experiments provide functional evidence that IRF-1 has the potential to act as a tumour-suppressor gene . |
| 21 | But the commune continued to act as a major obstacle to the emergence of any substantial stratum of better-off peasants . |
| 22 | The world of neural networks and pattern recognition is likely to act as a major guide . |
| 23 | On this tray are four drilled 2¼″ diameter pipes , each of which slide inside another pipe to act as a reusable cartridge . |
| 24 | He thinks that the likeliest area of ACT reform is the provision of a friendly UK base to act as a holding company for the European operations of UK or Japanese companies , allowing profits to flow through to the ultimate parent without the imposition of an ACT barrier . |
| 25 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 26 | He added that there might be a sufficient pool of volunteers to act as a new breed of ‘ civil justices ’ . |
| 27 | In both cases , the comic tends to act as a mere distraction from the main activity of drinking or dancing . |
| 28 | The system can either access cache data or allow the client 's disk to act as a personal NFS server . |
| 29 | His international appearances were restricted by injury and suspensions ; although he was one of Scotland 's top players for years , his longest run in the national team was only four matches , and he was actually dropped from a game against England for ‘ not being mentally attuned ’ after he refused to act as a makeshift linesman in a practice match . |
| 30 | He said he had wanted to see a national statistics council to act as a protective agency 10 years ago . |