Example sentences of "and acts as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Adjudicates resource disputes between individual services and acts as a clearing house for individual service proposals .
2 The lowest layer is patented as the ‘ nanokernel ’ and acts as a substrate for the other layers .
3 In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression .
4 A laboratory of the Science & Engineering Research Council , the Observatory also accommodates the University 's Department of Astronomy and acts as a control centre for major telescope facilities in Australia and Hawaii .
5 The transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(a) is where R' represents the resistance of R in parallel with R L , while the transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(b) is or Respective comparison of equations ( 8.11 ) and ( 8.14 ) with equations ( 8.17 ) and ( 8.18 ) reveals that the circuit of figure 8.5(a) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(a) and acts as a low-pass filter while the circuit of figure 8.5(b) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(b) and acts as a high-pass filter .
6 This serves to further illustrate the mentality of past ages and acts as a means of measuring our own cognitive processes in relationship to those of that time .
7 Many of the familiar aspects of modernization , such as a rise of individualism and of specification in material culture use and scientific-rational order , may be traced in these studies , but the evidence provides a means of analysing such changes in terms of the structural organization of everyday objects for the population as a whole , and acts as a balance to the more common literary and self-reflective accounts or these changes .
8 Some wish it to be , and therefore are disposed to describe it as being , a school which serves the neighbourhood , and acts as a focus for its life .
9 There is a separate pantry ( C ) , and a porch ( A ) which both screens the front door and acts as a fuel store .
10 The transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(a) is where R' represents the resistance of R in parallel with R L , while the transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(b) is or Respective comparison of equations ( 8.11 ) and ( 8.14 ) with equations ( 8.17 ) and ( 8.18 ) reveals that the circuit of figure 8.5(a) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(a) and acts as a low-pass filter while the circuit of figure 8.5(b) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(b) and acts as a high-pass filter .
11 The flanged plastic collet is then pushed firmly on to this , and acts as the hanger for items up to 30lb in weight .
12 The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two .
13 The Central Council for the Disabled is a coordinating national body that encourages the development of voluntary effort for the disabled , and the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled conducts research into their needs and problems and acts as an information body .
14 Ruether does not think in terms of a God who is transcendent above history and acts as an agent in history ; and this we might say lets her off the hook as far as the theodicy question is concerned .
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