Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 4 | He is my wife 's brother and he works as a journalist with a newspaper in Hue . |
| 5 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 6 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 7 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 8 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 9 | I have always been impressed with the quality of the precedents contained in the Encyclopaedia , which rarely let us down , despite the intricacies of the subject matter , and it comes as no surprise to me to find that so many firms seem to be basing their standard form agreements and leases on Forms 14 and 29 . |
| 10 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 11 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 12 | There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . |