Example sentences of "to act as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1576 Simon Bowyer , gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth , was granted a licence to buy and sell 500 sarplers of wool in the following ten years ; and in 1590 he received a commission to act as sole informer against those who infringed certain statutes controlling the wool trade . |
| 2 | Davide had been asked to act as legal counsel for three candidates from Rupe , four from Corrado , and for some five others who appeared but wisely did not divulge their place of origin . |
| 3 | The few adults who were allowed to accompany the children had too many demands on them to act as full-time baby minders . |
| 4 | When Hollywood moguls decided to make a feature film of Gungha Din they brought Sir Robert from Canada to act as technical advisor . |
| 5 | This chapter considers the use of expert determination in : ( 1 ) energy and mining contracts ( 7.2 ) ; ( 2 ) shipbuilding contracts ( 7.3 ) ; ( 3 ) construction contracts ( 7.4 ) ; ( 4 ) computer contracts ( 7.5 ) ; which display the following features discussed in Chapter 6 : ( 5 ) the use of technical experts drawing on expertise not directly associated with valuation ; ( 6 ) the use of technical experts to act as general dispute resolvers ; and ( 7 ) the use of " two-tier " dispute resolution procedures . |
| 6 | Some in the North East , such as Washington , were intended to act as regional growth centres . |
| 7 | Sanctions would cease to be applied from 15 November , while the senior patrician figure of Christopher Soames ( Winston Churchill 's son-inlaw , no less ) was sent to Zimbabwe to act as temporary governor to supervise new elections and restore the country 's trade . |
| 8 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 9 | Later in my newspaper career I was privileged to act as front page editor for a short time during which I enjoyed writing the 8-column headline and then arranging the other headlines , photo blocks and single or double columns to present a well-balanced and good looking front page spread . |
| 10 | Hundreds of chief executives agreed to act as unpaid board members of the fledgling TECs . |
| 11 | Tim had worked with computers at school , then in the high street shops , writing programs , trying out the games , until he began to act as unpaid demonstrator to the crowds of watching children , and the assistants did n't mind his presence . |
| 12 | He continued nevertheless to act as unpaid organizer and adviser to the Peelites up to 1852 . |
| 13 | A further potential conflict of interest arises when the investment funds of securities firms buy the junk bonds of companies to which the firm might wish to act as financial adviser in a takeover or restructuring . |
| 14 | She so wanted grandparents , that she appealed for a couple in the local paper to act as adopted granny and grandad . |
| 15 | He also managed to secure the transfer of Mike Sadler from the LRDG to act as chief navigator . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the TSR 2 was such an advanced and complex weapon system that British industry could not provide a firm with sufficient breadth of technological expertise to act as prime contractor . |
| 17 | To act as personal assistant to the Director . |
| 18 | Some processor memory should be available to act as external emulation memory for the processor and there should also be adequate memory to allow a trigger trace analysis to be performed . |
| 19 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 20 | Fenner , the Hull-based power transmission engineer , bought the stake when the original bid was announced and had offered to act as white knight to Armstrong and to distribute their fasteners through its own international network . |
| 21 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 22 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |
| 23 | In contrast to the commonly held belief that sex spoils athletic performance , Dr Craig Sharp , who used to act as medical adviser to British Olympic competitors , suggested that sexual activity might actually improve things . |
| 24 | was elected by HCIMA 's Executive Committee to the role of Student Liaison Councillor to act as focal point for student activity and comment . |
| 25 | However , the Circular states that they will also be expected to ‘ retain the ability to act as direct service providers , if other forms of service provision are unforthcoming or unsuitable . |
| 26 | The first controlled experiment into women 's ability to act as senior business executive shows that the best of British women are , without doubt , world class . |
| 27 | The Rayner Review stated : ‘ Particular attention needs to be paid to all information collected or costs incurred primarily to meet demands outside central government … in general there is no more reason for govermment to act as universal provider in the statistical field than in any other . |
| 28 | From the New Kingdom onwards it was often protected with a large heart scarab , inscribed with chapter 30 of the Book of the Dead , exhorting it to act as true witness . |
| 29 | Butland seems to have failed to appreciate that in the government reforms the general practitioner is the purchaser of services and the family health services authority 's role is to facilitate this and not to act as Big Brother . |
| 30 | In effect , therefore , the CMHTs were being required to act as local change agents , responsible for creating additional services in the community and mobilizing resources to sustain them . |