Example sentences of "to act as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the position here if I come to the conclusion that those presently instructing Crossman Block are not entitled to act as the government of the Republic . |
| 2 | The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy . |
| 3 | Chapter 9 considers who can act as an expert : as the answer is anyone whom the parties appoint , safeguards are built into the expert clause to provide that a suitably qualified person is likely to act as the expert . |
| 4 | One category is picked to act as the base for comparison with all other categories . |
| 5 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell , the ARC organising team and all those people from Gran Canaria who help the rally each year , boarded the Spanish Navy corvette , Villa de Bilbao , which was to act as the committee boat . |
| 6 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 7 | As to the amount left for food and clothing after rent and a more flexible sum for heat had been deducted , wives tended to act as the buffer against the needs of husbands and to a lesser extent children . |
| 8 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 9 | The Council 's Depute Chief Executive has been asked to act as the Clerk to the Appeal Committee in Lothian . |
| 10 | But Version 2 of CICS/2 enables an OS/2 machine to act as the server for the first time — running fully-fledged CICS applications . |
| 11 | When the army began getting tough with the Peking students last year , Zeng was there to act as the country 's conscience , but a week after the outbreak of violence he realised that his life was in danger and that he must leave China while he could . |
| 12 | On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body . |
| 13 | It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 14 | Ex-Tate Gallery Curator , Dr David Brown , continues to act as the gallery 's talent scout in the field of contemporary art . |
| 15 | He said he had invited the Official Solicitor , David Venables , to act as the child 's guardian . |
| 16 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 17 | Managers and GPs continue to act as the patient 's agent , and the rationers of health care . |
| 18 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 19 | State intervention has , however , by no means been kept at bay and has many impulses : the need of many enterprises for state subsidies ( which are accompanied by state controls ) ; increasing income differentials between collectives and regions under market influences ; and the willingness of centralist leaders , concerned about the way consumerism undermines socialist values , to resort to the constitutional right and responsibility of the state to act as the guardian of socialism . |
| 20 | Yet that 's what you 'll find in Epson 's Stylus 800 — the company has adapted piezoelectric technology ( previously found in cigarette lighters ) to act as the engine for inkjet printing . |
| 21 | It was one thing to act as the go-between in the 1970s and to be a successful defrauder of the Americans and other Western states . |
| 22 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 23 | 7 Be prepared to act as the diplomat within your Company . |
| 24 | The justification for reserving this not uninfluential role to a small number of wealthy , landed families was that since they had to act as the Queen 's hosts when she visited the county , they needed a house big enough to accommodate her and her entourage . |
| 25 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 26 | He said the council received about £200,000 a year to act as the collecting agent for the water authority but it cost nearly double that to do it . |
| 27 | GPs are neither employees nor agents of the home authority and have no contractual , and little moral , duty to act as the authority 's gatekeeper . |
| 28 | As with the accountant the person performing the function of the surveyor should be professionally qualified and the following proviso should be added : Provided that the person who purports to act as the Surveyor must be an Associate or Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or an Associate or Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers |
| 29 | These examples no doubt demonstrate the ability of Soviet forces to act as the ultima ratio of Socialist order in Eastern Europe ; their presence , however , does not guarantee that the armed forces of Eastern Europe will perform reliably or effectively . |
| 30 | But Roxanne loves another and Cyrano nobly agrees to act as the surrogate author of love letters from his comrade in arms , the dumbly handsome Christian de Neuvillette ( Vincent Perez ) until both suitors are called to duty in the war against Spain . |