Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , often when it is adopted the final accounts are adjusted to appear as accruals accounts . |
| 2 | ( b ) Counteract the tendency for the most able craftsmen preferring to work as sub-contractors . |
| 3 | Good luck to , operations trainee , who has joined as operations assistant . |
| 4 | It was announced that Mrs Ann Lucas has resigned as Minutes Secretary since her new job makes it difficult for her to travel from Aberystwyth for committee meetings . |
| 5 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 6 | Repeated European hostilities in the eighteenth century reinforced the county 's particular vulnerability ; with the revival of local militias after 1758 , the aristocracy and gentry were expected to serve as officers . |
| 7 | has retired as Sports & Physical Recreation Adviser to the Disabled Living Foundation . |
| 8 | The extensive mill complex was largely built during the 1770s , becoming known as Days Mill , from the brothers Jeremiah and Daniel , who made cloth in the much enlarged premises . |
| 9 | The company should then use the segments that it has defined as targets against which products may be positioned . |
| 10 | There would be a major shift in resources to infra-structure-related companies , particularly in the three areas Clinton has identified as priorities : transportation , communications and environmental systems . |
| 11 | The White Paper ( see p2 for detailed news coverage ) addresses a number of the structural issues which AEA has identified as barriers to innovation in the UK . |
| 12 | New departments and quangos would , according to the review , be designed to act as irritants and antagonists within the Civil Service system . |
| 13 | Bus services were excluded from the committee 's remit as , even before deregulation , buses operated in a much more competitive and diversified environment than the public sector monopolies over whose transport services TUCCs were designed to act as watchdogs . |
| 14 | In The Form of Living he charts the sacramental understanding at the heart of the Mass , as a whole way of life and perceived growth in consciousness ; his Meditations on the Passion engage with different stages of such growth and , indeed , are designed to act as catalysts for its progress . |
| 15 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 16 | It would be usual in this connection for partners to be expressly permitted to act as solicitors for their own families free of charge except for any disbursements or out of pocket expenses incurred by the firm ( Clause 13.05 ) ; ( 3 ) requiring each partner to be responsible for the prompt discharge of his separate obligations and to indemnify his co-partners should circumstances ever arise in which they could be made liable for the same . |
| 17 | New legal provisions on sex equality suggest that male nurses must be permitted to act as midwives . |
| 18 | Conveyancers are not normally expected to act as negotiators and , if estate agents are involved , it is important to make certain that they have fully and finally settled the price , both for the legal estate in the property and for any extras , such as fixtures and fittings , or even any chattels that might be left at the property . |
| 19 | Shells are pleasant to handle and regard , can easily be perforated to serve as ornaments and in addition are remarkably durable . |
| 20 | They are not intended to serve as illustrations of something more general . |
| 21 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 22 | The Budget Planner ( pages 120–25 ) may help you to work out whether the various luxuries and plans of which nearly all of us dream could be affordable or are destined to remain as fantasies . |
| 23 | But they do not feel treated as partners . |
| 24 | Literary texts can be seen acting as metaphors for features the skilled ( shamanistic perhaps ? ) reader of the cultural text discerns and whose significances to the larger whole are suggestively indicated . |
| 25 | Höchstetter , Daniel Ulstat , and Hans Lonner , came acting as agents for the outwardly prosperous merchant company " David Haug , Hans Langnauer , and Mitverwandte " who had also involved themselves in mining . |
| 26 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 27 | More importantly , many will have increasingly supplied goods and services to the nearby villas and rural settlements , as individual small towns came to act as centres for periodic or permanent local fairs or markets . |
| 28 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 29 | Names of those prepared to act as stewards on the day should be given to Bridget Ewing ( 01.302.9021 ) . |
| 30 | A young Frenchman , when in 1896 he entered his country 's diplomatic service , found himself trained as in the past , largely by being made to copy as models of style despatches dating from the pre-revolutionary monarchy . |